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Tag: Lebanon
| For fifth consecutive year, Italy promotes dialogue through sports in Lebanon


| 26 April 2013
 For the fifth year, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Development Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Italy, has funded a three-day-sports event for young Palestine Refugees in UNRWA’s Siblin Training Centre. |

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| UNRWA changes children’s lives with recycled materials


| 25 April 2013
 "Who would have thought that recycling can make such a difference? I can’t thank UNRWA enough for changing my little boy's life”, said the mother of 7-year-old Hadi El Khatib, a resident of Ein El Hilweh refugee camp, |

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| Amid the trauma, UNRWA in Lebanon provides hope to refugees from Syria


| 23 April 2013
 “There is no future. There is no hope. There is a lot of sadness here,” says Hoda Abdel Fateh, a Palestine refugee who escaped the violence in Yarmouk Camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus in December. |

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| Syria crisis situation update (Issue 43)

| 20 April 2013
 Humanitarian needs continue to increase across Syria, with armed conflict occurring in and around Palestine refugee camps. Palestine refugees remain a particularly vulnerable group increasingly exposed to conflict-related death, |

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| UN humanitarian chief visits Nahr el-Bared camp

| 18 April 2013
 The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Robert Watkins visited the Nahr el-Bard Palestine refugee camp in northern Lebanon, where he witnessed first-hand the living conditions of Palestine refugees and was briefed on the reconstruction efforts, which started in the camp in 2007. |

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| Notes from the field: Palestine refugees from Syria struggle with life in Lebanon


| 17 April 2013
 “You feel like the buildings around you just fall down,” says seven-year-old Khaled, describing the shelling he witnessed before fleeing Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. |

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| Italian Minister for International Cooperation and Integration meets Palestine refugees displaced from Syria


| 15 April 2013
 The Italian Minister for International Cooperation and Integration, Andrea Riccardi, has visited Shatila refugee camp near Beirut to meet with Palestine refugees displaced from Syria and witness first-hand their difficult living conditions. |

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| On the occasion of World Health Day, UNRWA highlights results of health reform in Lebanon


| 09 April 2013
 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) held a ceremony today in Lebanon Field Office to present the results of health reform activities generously funded by the Italian Development Cooperation beginning in 2010. |

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| UNRWA's Commissioner-General meets Palestine refugees displaced from Syria

 | 05 April 2013
 The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, visited a cash distribution center in Beirut, where he met with Palestine refugees displaced from Syria. The refugees spoke to the Commissioner-General about their sufferings and needs and he explained to them UNRWA’s efforts to assist them better. |

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| UNRWA combats anemia in Lebanon


| 26 March 2013
 In response to the high prevalence of iron deficiency anemia – the lack of red blood cells to provide oxygen throughout the body – among Palestine refugees in Lebanon, UNRWA routinely screens those with a high risk, including pregnant women and infants under a year, |

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