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The Strategist (blog)
April 3, 2018
Events on the Gaza–Israel border during the past few days clearly demonstrate the irrelevance of the two-state solution to the Israel–Palestine conflict. ... But, in part it also has to do with the realisation among Palestinians that a two-state solution won't resolve the problem of the Palestinian refugees' right toÃâà...
Xinhua
April 2, 2018
GAZA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday that Qatar's recent donations have helped the agency continue its services for Palestinian refugees. "With its unprecedented pledge of 50 million U.S. dollars to UNRWA at a recentÃâà...
The National
April 1, 2018
A Palestinian refugee family warm themselves by a fire in their house during cold weather in Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. ... India has announced it will quadruple its contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Aljazeera.com
March 31, 2018
He was shot dead earlier in the day after Israeli forces fired live ammunition at protesters and used tear gas to push them back from a heavily fortified fence as they began a planned six-week demonstration demanding the right of return for refugees. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more thanÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 31, 2018
Protesters said the main message of the march was to call for the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Tents were also set up on five ... Many of the 1.3 million Palestinians who live in refugee camps throughout the Gaza Strip hail from villages and towns just across the border with Israel. Hosam Salem/AlÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 26, 2018
The livelihoods and long-term futures of thousands of Palestinian refugee families across Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank are at risk due to Donald Trump's catastrophic decision to cut the American donation to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The USÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 13, 2018
Nor will it call for a “fair and just solution” for Palestinian refugees, though it will offer steps to deal with the issue of refugees. ... Palestine's leaders were more or less unequivocal in their condemnations when the White House announced the embassy move, which officials claimed would not undercutÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 13, 2018
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, bet she could compel others to help America shoulder the financial burden of aiding Palestinian refugees if only the U.S. choked off its own humanitarian aid spigot. So far, the Palestinians have come up empty-handed. Two months after the UnitedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 13, 2018
In this context, it is unrealistic for the US to fight for the refugees' right to return to their homelands. The last three American Presidents - Clinton, Bush and Obama - already stated that the long-lasting solution to the Palestinian refugee problem will be their settlement in the future state of Palestine, not Israel.
Breaking Israel News
March 12, 2018
But rather than to reprimand UNRWA for its abysmal record, which actually invents new refugees every year (how can one be a refugee in the place where one was born is secret UNRWA never reveals), the aim of the Rome conference, to take place at UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)Ãâà...
Gatestone Institute
March 10, 2018
It is time to end the deadly charade of calling the displaced Palestinians "refugees." Almost none of the neatly five million Arabs who now seek to claim the mantle of "Palestinian refugee" was ever actually in Israel. They are the descendants — some quite distant — of those who were actually displaced inÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 10, 2018
... future of millions of young girls and women who are Palestinian refugees across the Middle East remained in danger. Unfortunately, a recent decision by the United States to significantly reduce expected financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA),Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
The Government of Japan has contributed US$ 23.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). yesterday, an agreement was jointly signed by the Japanese Ambassador for Palestinian Affairs and Representative of Japan to Palestine, Mr.
The Daily Star
March 8, 2018
Clashes broke out Wednesday afternoon between opposing Palestinian factions inside a Beirut-area refugee camp, a security source said. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe now unrestricted access 1 month.
Middle East Monitor
March 8, 2018
A statement from the Committee explained that it has agreed with many NGOs, youth and women's movements in the Gaza Strip to take part in what it describes as a “national activity which adopts peaceful resistance as a new approach to retake Palestinian rights, at the top of which is the refugees' right ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 3, 2018
Today, UNRWA provides humanitarian aid for 5.3 million refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. The Agency provides basic education for more than half a million refugee children, primary health care for 3.5 million refugees, cash and food support for the abject poor and special programmes forÃâà...
The New Arab
March 2, 2018
It originated in May 2011, when young Palestinians - inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings - led thousands of Palestinian refugees from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank to march towards the Israeli borders. At the time, more than a hundred Palestinians from Syria managed to breach the IsraeliÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 28, 2018
Throughout several interventions the Netherlands aims at protecting this increasingly vulnerable group of Palestinian Refugees from Syria from dangers of exploitation in difficult times.” Affirming the importance of UNRWA role in providing humanitarian assistance to those in need, the Ambassador said:Ãâà...
The News International (blog)
February 23, 2018
“Any reduction of aid would be a death sentence for refugees in Gaza,” Ahmed al-Assar, who lives in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, told The ... for 1.7 million Palestine refugees and primary healthcare for 3 million, on access to education for more than 500,000 Palestinian children in 702 UNRWAÃâà...
Palestine Chronicle
February 22, 2018
“It is the Palestinian youth's window or our outlet to express ourselves in writing,” said Sanded. Sanded who left Sbeineh refugee camp in the south of Damascus, Syria four years ago, due to the ongoing war in the country, and settled with his family in Rashidieh camp in Tyre, Lebanon, believes that the new outlet will allowÃâà...
Truthdig
February 19, 2018
“Any reduction of aid would be a death sentence for refugees in Gaza,” Ahmed al-Assar, who lives in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, told The ... food assistance for 1.7 million Palestine refugees and primary healthcare for 3 million, on access to education for more than 500,000 Palestinian children inÃâà...
New Statesman
February 12, 2018
The first evidence of Trump's plans to undermine the refugees' rights came last month when the US reduced by half its aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), which provides food, primary medical services and education for all Palestinian refugees not only in Gaza but in the West Bank, Jordan,Ãâà...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 11, 2018
Humanitarian support to ensure that the health, food, and education needs of Palestinian refugees are met is crucial. Further aid to prop up a corrupt and non-democratic PA that is suppressing its own population is clearly far more problematic. Democrats, including those who did not sign, are anxious toÃâà...
Mondoweiss
February 3, 2018
A resolution to the Palestinian refugee crisis under a two-state solution is understood to entail compensation for the displaced families, and a combination of ... Instead of capitalizing on the Palestinian compromise, abiding by international law, and withdrawing from one-fifth of historic Palestine to allow theÃâà...
UN Dispatch
December 31, 1999
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, is facing a crisis. This is the humanitarian agency that provides relief for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. This includes running hospitals and schools that serve about half a million children. TypicallyÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
Abbas was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida commending the positions of Arab states in support of Palestine. He was also ... Moreover, the dailies spotlighted statements on the ongoing financial crisis gripping the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. Al-Quds reported in thisÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
The Government of Italy has contributed EUR 1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in support of the Agency's 2017 Emergency Appeal for Syria. The grant will support emergency education for Palestine refugee children in Syria andÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
This is how the Yarmouk refugee camp in the southern part of Damascus has been forgotten, after basking in the limelight two years ago. ... London-based human rights watchdog Action Group for Palestinians in Syria is one of the few bodies that still shows an interest in the country's Palestinian refugees,Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) are holding a Strategic Dialogue on the way forward for their partnership. The discussion takes place in light of the current financial crisis facing UNRWA and the need to broadenÃâà...
