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Dispatches from the Field: From one set back to another, Mariam Chaar's story

Dispatches from the Field: From one set back to another, Mariam Chaar's story

08 August 2020
As Palestine refugees living and working in camps in Lebanon, we cannot distance ourselves from the events that impact our host country. Despite the hardship we face in refugee camps, Lebanon is still our second home, the country we grew up in.
Dispatch photo caption: Debris in the hotel lobby in the aftermath of the 4 August explosion. © 2020 UNRWA Photo by Chaker Khazaal

Dispatches from the field: It's Beirut Again and I'm still running for my life - Chaker Khazaal's story

08 August 2020
It was just after 6 p.m. in a hotel in Badaro, Beirut. I was taking a short break with a friend after long hours spent filming for a show. What first felt like an earthquake quickly turned into the loud familiar sound of bombing. There was shattered glass everywhere...
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...

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