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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Pa
UNRWA staff member comforts a distressed child at a school shelter in Nuseirat camp, Gaza Strip.
Former UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini with US Secretary Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan, 4 November 2023
British politician Alan Duncan talking to schoolchildren at a school supported by UNRWA and UKaid in Gaza, 10 December 2012
Women receiving bread from United Nations Relief for Palestine Refugees (UNRPR), 1948: photo from UNRWA Archive
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in
UNRWA
…Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem). Aid for Palestinian refugees outside these five areas is provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), established in 1950 as the main agency to aid all other refugees worldwide. UNRWA is the only UN agency dedicated to helping refugees from a…
Barham Salih
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, near the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
UNHCR packages containing tents, tarps, and mosquito netting sit in a field in Dadaab, Kenya, on 11 December 2006, following disastrous flooding
UNHCR 50th anniversary. Stamp of Tajikistan, 2001.