introduction Following a dramatic intensification in violence in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in May 2021, including an escalation in hostilities leading to airstrikes on Gaza between 10...
Seventy-seven year-old Mohammed Omayya is a Palestine refugee who escaped from violence in Syria to Lebanon. He has been living in Beddawi refugee camp with his wife and son since January 2013...
UNRWA conducts a humanitarian mission to Yarmouk camp On 1 April 2021, food baskets and non- food items were distributed to Palestine refugees living in Yarmouk. A total of 827 persons (about 243...
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, visited Moscow on 9 June for a series of high-level...
A 15-year-old child in Gaza has lived through four escalation in hostilities. They have observed the frustration and hopelessness of young adults several years older in the Great March of Return...
From the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNRWA mobile clinic doctor Khaled Ma’touq recalls the fear, confusion and panic that spread through the Palestine refugee community. UNRWA...
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has contributed US$ 5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in support of its health programme in...
In May, UNRWA Chief of Staff (CoS) Ugochi Daniels conducted a field visit to Lebanon Field Office focused on Protection and Gender initiatives. The visit was a chance for her to meet UNRWA staff and...
UNRWA is deeply concerned about actions by parties to the conflict during recent hostilities in Gaza that caused damage to its installations and violated its inviolability and neutrality. With no...
I am seriously concerned by the gravity and magnitude of the attacks directed against the senior management of UNRWA in the Gaza Strip over the past week, including the assembly of a very large...