
| Turkey contributes US$500,000 to the Quick Response Plan for Gaza

| 02 April 2009
 The government of Turkey has contributed US$500,000 in response to UNRWA’s appeal for its Quick Response Plan for Gaza (QRP). The donation was formally finalized at a signing ceremony in Jerusalem. |

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| Dubai Cares Assists UNRWA School Children in the Gaza Strip

| 22 March 2009
 Dubai-based charitable establishment provides 30,300 school and hygiene kits to children with UNRWA help. |

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| Gaza: "I want to be free and safe; these are my two main wishes."

| 11 March 2009
 Basma Hamid Rajab, a volunteer at the Eastern Gaza Centre for Family Development, explains she relishes the opportunities that have been opened up for her and other local women.
By Najwa Sheikh Ahmed |

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| Gaza is Code Pink on International Women's Day

| 08 March 2009
 On the day before International Women’s Day, a 50-member international delegation carrying 2,000 gift baskets crossed the Egyptian border into the Gaza Strip, to pay tribute to Gazan women. |

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| Heavy rains add to Gaza misery

| 06 March 2009
 Families whose homes were destroyed during the recent offensive in Gaza and are now living in tents face new misery as the heavy rains that have swept Gaza in the past few days have reduced tents to sodden piles of cloth and turned camps in to a quagmire. |

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| Letters from Gaza (22) ...When We Stop Dreaming


| 04 March 2009
 The life of the Palestinian refugees over the last 60 years has been uniquely rich. Rich with suffering endured, rich with the capability to cope. Rich with a willingness to survive. |

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| Qatar donates $10 million to UNRWA for Gaza

| 25 February 2009
 Responding to UNRWA’s appeal for $345 million for its Quick Response Plan for Gaza, the government of Qatar has allocated $10 million for UNRWA out of $40 million which it is donating to the UN as a whole. |

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| Voices from Gaza

| 18 February 2009
 Testimonies from people caught up in the three-week conflict in Gaza. |

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| Voices from Gaza (3)

| 18 February 2009
 "The kids were terrified and screamed all the time, we stayed under the staircase unable to leave" |

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| Queen Rania: "The world owes UNRWA a huge debt of gratitude"

| 17 February 2009
 Her Majesty, Queen Rania of Jordan today praised the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, which she said had offered the people of Gaza a "glimmer of hope" during and after the war. |

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