Filippo Grandi

At the Hassan Sham camp for Iraqis who fled ISIS terrorists and the subsequent assault on Mosul, located on the border of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, 2017. In a new agreement, the US is demanding that the UN Refugee Agency make American donations to the organization more visible. LEVI CLANCY/CREATIVE COMMONS

MEMO | March 26, 2014

Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Filippo Grandi yesterday called on Israel and Egypt to lift the siege that has been imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than half a decade.
Grandi said the siege on the Gaza Strip is considered the longest in history; longer than that of Sarajevo, Berlin and Leningrad.