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UNRWA’s publications cover many different areas, from socio-economic reports to appeals, newsletters, strategy documents and UN resolutions. This archive, dating back to 2000, contains useful information for researchers, partners and members of the public.

Palestinians search the debris of a destroyed home in Gaza City,UNRWA is assessing rebuilding needs for damaged homes.courtesy from AFP

Category: A week of conflict hits Gaza Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: conflict \| Gaza

In mid-2007, during a conflict between the Lebanese Army and the Fatah Al-Islam group, Nahr el-Bared camp was pounded with heavy artillery and aerial bombardments, destroying or damaging 95 per cent of buildings. 27,000 Palestine refugees were displaced.

Category: Picking up the pieces Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: conflict \| Lebanon \| Nahr el-Bared

UNRWA‘s main programmes in five fields include relief and social services. Through European Union (EU) support, the Agency is able to provide basic food supplies, emergency cash grants and adequate shelter to the most vulnerable refugees.

Category: Strong support Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: EU \| refugees

An old man sits outside his UNRWA-supplied tent in the Ezbet Abed Rabbo area of northern Gaza. His home was destroyed in the war. Credit: Suhair Karam/IRIN

Category: Slice of Life in Gaza Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: conflict \| Gaza

A boy poses in front of one of more than 4,000 houses in the Gaza Strip that the UN said were totally destroyed or beyond repair after the war. Credit: Suhair Karam/IRIN

Category: Slice of Life in Gaza Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: conflict \| Gaza

A new mud brick house stands next to the rubble of one of 4,036 homes destroyed in the January 2009 war between Israel and Hamas. Credit Suhair Karam/IRIN

Category: Mud brick houses in Gaza Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: blockade \| conflict \| Gaza \| Jabalia

UNRWA runs eight double-shift schools, in four school buildings, providing free elementary education to the camp’s children.

Category: Camp Life Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: Neirab \| refugees

The first UNRWA schools were in tents or in the open air. UNRWA started out with 93 schools and more than 35,000 pupils in 1950.

Category: The Flight: 1948 Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: refugees

In 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) was established in response to the needs of some 750,000 Palestine refugees. During its initial one-year mandate, UNRWA tried to alleviate the misery faced by the refugees.

Category: The Flight: 1948 Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: refugees

This couple in Nahr el-Bared camp, Lebanon, straighten out their tents again after winter storms blew it down and turned the earth into mud.

Category: The Flight: 1948 Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: refugees

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