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  • UNRWA Health Response to Ein El Hilweh Conflict
    Continuing Vital Health-Care Support for Displaced Palestine Refugees BEIRUT, UNRWA is providing health-care services to the displaced Palestine Refugees from Ein El Hilweh camp, including for those who seek refuge in the emergency shelters located in UNRWA schools and premises. The UNRWA Health Centre in Saida, an additional health centre set up for the displaced in the UNRWA Siblin Training Centre, and a mobile health clinic serve those displaced in UNRWA protection shelter. They include full medical staff and are fully operational. UNRWA plans to establish a temporary mobile clinic in a...
  • Iceland’s Foreign Minister Ms. ÞórdísKolbrún R. Gylfadóttir and UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini signed a multi-year framework agreement for the years 2024-2028. (C) 2023 UNRWA Photo
    Iceland’s Foreign Minister Ms. Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir and UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini signed a multi-year framework agreement for the years 2024-2028 in support of Palestine Refugees in UNRWA’s five fields of operation. The signature took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
  • UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini addresses media representatives during a press briefing following the High-Level Ministerial Event in New York on 21 September 2023. © 2023 UNRWA Photo
    Today, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Sweden co-hosted, in the presence of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, a High-Level Ministerial meeting in support of Palestine Refugees and UNRWA on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly.
  • A female student at UNRWA Gaza Training Center during the UnlitterGaza launch activities. © 2023 UNRWA Photo
    UNRWA and Belgian community-tech company UNbox have joined forces to launch a groundbreaking recycling program in the Gaza Strip
  • UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini addresses media representatives during a press briefing following the High-Level Ministerial Event in New York on 21 September 2023. © 2023 UNRWA Photo
    As delivered Minister Safadi, Minister Billström, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, UNRWA financial crisis deepens year after year. I know it sounds like a broken record for many of you. But my plea to you today is not to take our ability to muddle through should for granted. It is not because we have not yet reached the inflection point that we won’t do so soon. Too much is at stake for Palestine Refugees and the region if we do. Meanwhile, we are beginning to see the cracks in some of our flagship programmes. Let us take our renowned education system as an example. It allowed us, over...