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Refugee boy solving an arithmetic problem in an elementary school in Nabatieh Camp. Education is a major part of UNRWA's program in the Middle East camps - altogether 390 UNRWA schools provide…

Refugees are seen here in a Sewing and Home Economics Centre at the Yarmouk camp, 20 km south of Damascus. There are 30 girls taking a six-months course. The Yarmouk camp with 17,000 refugees was…

This picture, taken on a beach near Gaza, shortly after the arrival of the UN Emergency Force in the Gaza Strip, shows refugees unloading bags of flour that the UN Relief and Works Agency for…

Some 900,000 refugees are still on the rolls of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The Agency is providing food, medical care and shelter as well as helping the…

At the beginning of the year, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was still taking care of, and feeding, some 925,000 Arab refugees of the Palestine war of 1948. UNRWA has made…

The Palestinian conflict forced into exile nearly a million Arabs from the region which has become Israel. Great efforts were made by the U.N. Relief and Works (UNRWA) to provide work and pay for the…

The Palestinian conflict forced into exile nearly a million Arabs. Great efforts were made by the UN Relief and Works Agency to provide work and pay for the refugees. But available funds were only…

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this evening adopted a draft resolution which would have the General Assembly determine "that Zionism is a form of racism and racial…

Meeting for the second time in 24 hours on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, the Security Council late tonight expressed its grave concern at the continuation of…

Yasser Arafat (front centre), the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), departs with his colleagues after a one-and-a-half-hour meeting with Secretary-General Javier Pérez de…

Hostilities end between Egypt and Israel. Out of the 3,569 civilians in the Al Faluja area, 1,050 chose to go to Gaza and were evacuated under United Nations supervision at the same time as the…

Hostilities end between Egypt and Israel. Out of the 3,569 civilians in the Al Faluja area, 1,050 chose to go to Gaza and were evacuated under United Nations supervision at the same time as the…