| Commissioner-General's statement to the UNRWA Advisory Commission
| 26 November 2012
Last Tuesday I was in Gaza. I visited a food distribution centre which had been badly damaged in an airstrike, but which our staff had repaired within hours. |
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| "Seize the opportunities of the Gaza ceasefire": UNRWA Commissioner-General
| 26 November 2012
UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo Grandi called on the international community and the parties to the Israel-Palestine conflict to “seize the opportunity” provided by the Gaza ceasefire. |
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| A day after the ceasefire: UNRWA returns to work with Gaza traumatised and in crisis
| 22 November 2012
Just hours after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was announced, UNRWA returned to work in the war-scarred Gaza Strip. UNRWA schools, where some 10,000 people displaced by the violence took refuge, are now virtually empty as families returned to their homes to take stock of the damage. |
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| Letter from the Commissioner-General
| 21 November 2012
With the escalating situation in Gaza, ongoing violence in Syria, economic and social unrest in Jordan and the West Bank, and continued hardship for Palestine refugees in Lebanon, UNRWA is once again facing multiple challenges in the region. |
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| Gaza situation report, 20 November
| 20 November 2012
UNRWA Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi visited Gaza today to see firsthand the immense destruction taking place and to recognise UNRWA staff’s dedicated work despite the violence. |
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| "Tiptoeing away from UNRWA not an option", Commissioner-General tells Fourth Committee
| 08 November 2012
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, has called for a just solution to the plight of the five million Palestine refugees at the UN’s General Assembly in New York. |
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| Commissioner-General's statement to the UN's Special Political and Decolonisation Committee
| 06 November 2012
Statement by Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, to the Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. |
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| UNRWA Commissioner-General to visit Brazil
| 09 August 2012
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA is to arrive shortly on an official visit to Brazil. During the trip, which begins on Monday, 13 August, Filippo Grandi will meet the foreign minister and senior foreign ministry officials. |
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| Commissioner-General’s opening statement to UNRWA Advisory Commission, June 2012
| 20 June 2012
Delivered by Filippo Grandi on 18 June 2012: I have chosen to focus on UNRWA as an organisation, with an eye to the future and with the Advisory Commission’s past recommendations clearly in mind. |
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| Commissioner-General statement on World Refugee Day 2012
| 18 June 2012
This special day reminds us of the trauma faced by all refugees around the world who have been uprooted by violence, persecution or conflict. This is an experience which reverberates among the Palestine refugees we at UNRWA serve. |
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