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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.

On 30 July 2009 Gaza’s children smashed the Guinness Book of World Record title for the number of kites flying simultaneously in the same place.

Category: Flying High Series: UNRWA factsheets Year: 0 Tags: children \| Gaza \| summer games

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

Facing old age with only a canvas roof to call home. After the Arab-Israeli war, refugees found shelter wherever they could, living in tents and even in caves.

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

A Palestine refugee woman cut off from her home by the “Green Line” – the armistice line established after the 1948 Arab Israeli war.

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

The lives of the refugees were turned upside down; they were faced with disease, lack of food and water, life in unfamiliar places and overcrowding.

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

By the autumn of 1948 a humanitarian disaster of immense proportions had taken shape, with more than 750,000 people in flight.

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

Palestinians began fleeing in late 1947, but the bulk left, or were driven from, their homes between April and August 1948.

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

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