Press Releases |
| Gaza children set for second world record in just a week
| 29 July 2010
Thousands of children in Gaza attending Summer Games organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) appear to have doubled their own world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously. |
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| Video: Where the hell is Matt? Matt is in Gaza with UNRWA
| 26 July 2010
Celebrity YouTube film maker Matt Harding, whose film “Where the Hell is Matt?” secured over 30 million internet hits, has made a flying visit to Gaza as a guest of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). |
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| Gaza kids set for second world record
| 24 July 2010
Thousands of children in Gaza today bounced simultaneously six thousand basket balls, doubling the previous Guiness Book of World Records record set in 2007. |
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Articles |
| Dr. Safiyeh Mukhles – Healing lives
| 28 July 2010
It has been a very long time since Safiyeh Mukhles saw Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, a powerful symbol of the city in which she was born 66 years ago. Having fled Palestine for Syria as a child, Dr. Mukhles has spent her life at a small and yet unbridgeable distance from the city of her birth. |
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| Reaching for the sky: Gaza children attempt a second world record in just one week
| 28 July 2010
Fresh from their basketball record last week, this Thursday 29 July, thousands of children in Gaza attending UNRWA’s Summer Games will attempt to smash their own world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously. |
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| Gated community: life inside the West Bank Barrier
| 27 July 2010
The West Bank Barrier snakes around the villages of Biddu, Beit Surik and Beit Ijza, north west of Jerusalem, separating them from four nearby settlements – and much of their land. |
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Official Statements |
| Video Message to the Children of Gaza on the Occasion of the UNRWA summer Games
| 18 July 2010
“On 22 July, thousands of children in Gaza, as part of the UNRWA Summer Games will come together to break the number of basket balls bounced simultaneously. The UN Secrertary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon sent them this message of support”. |
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| Building Opportunities: UNRWA and Palestine Refugees in Today’s Middle East
| 07 July 2010
Commissioner-General’s Address at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Opportunities Amidst Crises: UNRWA and Palestine Refugees In Today’s Middle East
| 29 June 2010
I thank Rami Khoury, the Issam Fares Institute and the American University of Beirut for inviting me to join you for a time of reflection and discussion. The AUB is internationally lauded for applying excellence in intellectual inquiry to advance our understanding of contemporary social, political, legal and human rights questions. |
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