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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, on the eve of the General Assembly's vote on granting non-Member Observer State status to…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

Smoke and flames rise from the power plant in Gaza that was hit by missile strikes.

Flares from Israeli forces light up the night sky of Gaza City in the course of the hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

Left to right: Javier Solana Madariaga, High representative for the European Common Foreign and Security Policy, Igor S. Ivanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Secretary-…

The Security Council this afternoon failed to adopt a draft resolution by which it would have demanded that Israel abstain from any act of deportation and cease any threat to the safety of the…

The signing of the General Armistice Agreement between the Egyptian and Israeli Governments at the Hôtel des Roses, on the Greek Island of Rhodes, on 24 February 1949. The United Nations Acting…

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.

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…