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Coping with Disaster: Palestine Refugees in Lebanon
Palestine refugee mother seated with her six children near her destroyed home at Ein El Hilweh camp near Sidon. UNRWA has appealed to governments for $39 million to finance relief efforts. 1982.
1 January 1982
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UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
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…
1 January 1961
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UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
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…
1 January 1961
Field Coverage
Palestine Refugees in the Gaza Strip
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…
1 May 1957
Field Coverage
Palestine Arab Refugees
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…
1 January 1957
Field Coverage
The United Nations' Care for the Palestine Refugees
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…
1 May 1957
Field Coverage
Palestine Refugees, Middle East, 1951
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…
1 January 1951
Field Coverage
Palestine Refugees, Middle East, 1951
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…
1 January 1951
General Assembly
Third Committee Adopts Draft Resolution
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…
17 October 1975
Security Council
Security Council Demans Immediate Cessation of All Violence in Middle East; Affirms Vision of Two States, Israel and Palestine
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…
12 March 2002
UN Headquarters
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat Departs after Meeting Secretary-General
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…
20 April 1989
Field Coverage
UN Supervises Evacuation of Al Faluja
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…
26 February 1949