In 1949, UNRWA formally defined the term "Palestine refugee" to refer to any Palestinian citizen or the descendant of any male Palestinian citizen who—if their regular place of residence was located w
A Palestine refugee girl and her baby brother wait shyly for their daily ration of food and milk from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), 1948
Palestine refugee women receiving their meal of bread from United Nations Relief for Palestine Refugees (UNRPR), 1948
Palestine refugees initially displaced to Beach camp in Gaza board boats to Lebanon or Egypt during the 1948 war
First shelter for thousand of Arab refugees who fled from the West Bank following hostilities in June 1967, was in school and other public buildings
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war o
Palestinian refugees
…refugees are the modern world's oldest unsettled refugee population, having been under the ongoing governance of various Arab countries following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the refugee populations of the West Bank under Israeli governance since 1967 and Palestinian Authority administration since the 1995 Oslo II Accord…
Raising the Ink Flag at Umm Rashrash
Israeli soldier and Palestinian prisoners in Ramle 1948
Israeli soldiers in battle with the Arab village of Sassa