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An estimated 300,000 people have been displaced by the Israeli invasion of Southern Lebanon, some 200,000 to 230,000 Lebanese and 85,000 to 100,000 Palestinians; about 30,000 are children. An old…

""UNEF troops are now in position in all camps and centers of population in the Gaza Strip"". This communiqué issue today by Gen. Burns, Commander of UNEF, added that the movement…

A young inhabitant of UNRWA's Nabatieh Camp, 30 kms. southeast of Saida.

Khan Eshieh, a Palestine refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

A blind man is assisted in making the difficult crossing from the Israeli-occupied west bank of the Jordan River, across the King Hussein Bridge (formerly Allenby Bridge) into Jordan, by his daughter…

Palestine refugee children on their way to school in UNRWA's (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugee) Khan Yunis camp built on the sand dunes of the Gaza Strip. The camp shelters some…

Here women refugees are collecting water from the watertanks in the Dheisheh camp, near Bethlehem. UNRWA mobile tanks supply the camp with water brought from Hebron, 26 km from Bethlehem. Thirty-…

Here is a general view of the Nuweimeh camp in Jericho. There are 1,151,024 refugees registered with UNRWA as of 30 June 1961. Thirty-eight per cent of them are sheltered in 57 UNRWA camps located in…

A group of youngsters line up outside the school building of the Sea Beach Camp girls' school maintained by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip.

Shown here are refugees building a water tower for one of the camps, in Gaza Strip.

This cave is the home of the six children in the photograph, who live with their parents, Ahmad and Leila Sirhan. Former landowners in their village Deir Abab, they first rented a small house near…

Khan Echih Camp, 25 kms. southwest of Damascus, obtains its water supply from the Awaj stream.