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Nagham Al-Yazji, a 15-year-old Palestine refugee student from the UNRWA Beach Preparatory Girls’ School B, won first prize in the international Messages of Peace Poetry Contest. © 2020 UNRWA Photo by Khalil Adwan

No Borders on Hope: UNRWA Student from Gaza wins Messages of Peace Poetry Contest

06 August 2020
Chosen from more than two thousand international contestants, Nagham Al-Yazji, 15, was just named a winner in the 2020 Inspirational Messages of Peace Contest by the United States National Park Service and International World Peace Rose Garden. The competition celebrates...
A Palestine refugee family of ten, including eight children, was forced to self-demolish its home in Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem in October 2019 after the Israeli military issued a demolition order with a threat of imprisonment unless the demolition was carried out. The house had been the family home since the early 1980s, leaving the family with extensive psychological trauma, in addition to the loss of shelter and personal belongings.

Helping Palestine refugees get back on their feet after home demolitions.

13 May 2020
Palestine refugees are particularly vulnerable to displacement. They are also disproportionately affected by demolition orders which are issued by the Israeli authorities who restrict significantly house construction in most of the Palestinian neighborhoods in East...
“We sometimes experience tear gas and shootings which doesn’t make me feel safe,” a student at the UNRWA Hebron H2 Boys’ School says, “I feel safe inside the school, but not all the time because of the occupation we are living under,” adds another student.

Protecting children’s right to education in Hebron H2

11 May 2020
The students of UNRWA Hebron H2 Boys’ School have the same expectations to learn in a safe and secure school environment as any student elsewhere in the world. However, attending their local UNRWA school in the H2 area of Hebron, which remains under Israeli security control...
Abdulrahman Abu Srour holds up his medications for diabetes and blood pressure that he receives from the UNRWA clinic in Bethlehem. © 2020 UNRWA Photo by Yumna Patel

Existential fears, Hope and Solidarity: Coping Under 30 days of Quarantine in Aida Camp

07 April 2020
It has been one month since the city of Bethlehem was shut down due to a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the city and its residents were put on lockdown
Student teachers and their little students from the UNRWA Jabal El-Hussein Basic School in Amman, Jordan. © 2019 UNRWA photo by Dania Al-Batayneh.

The Little Teacher initiative: QFFD support empowers Palestine refugee students who strive to become teachers

02 March 2020
We all have a dream we want to achieve. Do you remember when adults would ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up? We would answer with excitement, “I want to be a doctor! An engineer! An artist!”

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