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A child plays in front of a UNRWA-run school in Baqa'a camp, Jordan. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

April 7th, 2019 - 09:39 GMT

Guterres Calls on World to Aid UNRWA

During a visit to Baqaa refugee camp on Saturday, UN Secretary General António Guterres appealed to the international community to stand with UNRWA and its mission by continuing to fund the services it provides in Jordan and the region.

The decision does not apply to cement imported for Gaza projects carried out by UNRWA. (File photo)

April 4th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Concrete action: Israel stops cement deliveries to private companies in Gaza

Yarmouk, formerly the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, has not been accessed by the UN since Daesh took control of the area in April 2015.

March 31st, 2016 - 07:47 GMT

Palestinian camps experiencing ‘relative calm’ with Syria ceasefire: PLO

A Palestinian worker checks a house that was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas-led militants in the summer of 2014, east of Gaza City on March 23, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

March 30th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Japan pledges $500,000 to clear unexploded Israeli ordnance from Gaza

Fighters are seen along a street in the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, on 12 March 2013, after one person was killed and several wounded in clashes that erupted in the camp. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)

March 29th, 2016 - 08:07 GMT

Two Palestinians killed in Lebanon camp amid increasing tensions

Syrian government security forces inspect the site of a series of attacks the area of the Sayyida Zeinab shrine south of Syria's capital Damascus on February 21, 2016. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

February 26th, 2016 - 09:24 GMT

Bombing of Damascus killed over 30 Palestinian refugees: UN

Syrian women wait in Arsal, Lebanon. (AFP/File)

February 17th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Being a woman is just an added burden for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

January 21st, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Palestinian PM slams continuing displacement of Bedouin communities

January 15th, 2016 - 12:39 GMT

UNRWA launches annual appeal of $816M to support Palestinians

January 14th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon take to streets over UNRWA cuts

December 27th, 2015 - 06:30 GMT

Three Palestinian refugees killed in Syria fighting: monitor

December 20th, 2015 - 09:00 GMT

Refugees make up one third of Jordan’s total population

December 6th, 2015 - 05:30 GMT