Explainer: Embattled Gaza aid group UNRWA has been helping Palestinian refugees since 1949

The United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is embroiled in controversy after Israel reported agency employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Here is the agency's history.

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