{"id":7538,"date":"2026-02-08T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/nicht-kategorisiert\/event-invitation-to-the-film-unraveling-unrwa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:51:01","slug":"event-invitation-to-the-film-unraveling-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/news-en\/event-invitation-to-the-film-unraveling-unrwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to the film &#8220;UNraveling UNRWA&#8221;. February 16, 19.00 h, Community Center ICZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the attacks on 7 October and allegations of UNRWA staff involvement in kidnappings, the organization faced global consequences and an Israeli bill aimed at severing relations &#8211; against the backdrop of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Numerous donor countries temporarily suspended their funding, but later resumed it; the United States, the organization&#8217;s largest donor, has not yet resumed its contributions. <\/p>\n\n<p>The film traces the 75-year development of UNRWA &#8211; from its origins after 1948 as a temporary relief organization for Palestinian refugees to its central and often controversial role in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It sheds light on new and surprising findings and provides an insight into the only UN organization dedicated exclusively to a specific population group. With its three-year mandate due to expire in December 2025, the UN General Assembly is about to take a crucial vote on whether to extend UNRWA&#8217;s mission.  <br\/><br\/>Register here for the first screening of the film in Switzerland:<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/invitation-to-the-film-unraveling-unrwa\/\">To the registration<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNRAVELING UNRWA\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1120761302?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the attacks on 7 October and allegations of UNRWA staff involvement in kidnappings, the organization faced global consequences and an Israeli bill aimed at severing relations &#8211; against the backdrop of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Numerous donor countries temporarily suspended their funding, but later resumed it; the United States, the organization&#8217;s largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_socialbar":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[823],"tags":[2495,2490,642,2493,2488,654,825,1484,665,2491,2492,2494,2489,661,2496],"class_list":["post-7538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-donor-countries","tag-film-screening","tag-gaza-en","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-international-politics-2","tag-israel-en","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-palestine","tag-switzerland","tag-un-general-assembly","tag-un-mandate-2025","tag-united-nations","tag-unraveling-unrwa","tag-unrwa-en","tag-usa-foreign-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7614,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}