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UNRWA hygiene campaign helps keeps Gaza shelters healthy

27 February 2015

A rigorous hygiene campaign is playing a key role preventing any major disease outbreaks in Collective Centres, some eight months since displaced people first sought shelter from the July/August 2014 hostilities.

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Japan commits US$ 32.2 million to support Palestine refugees

26 February 2015

Japan has announced a new US$ 32.2 million contribution to UNRWA. The donation will support urgent relief and recovery needs in Gaza, emergency assistance for Palestine refugees affected by the conflict in Syria, and the continuation of essential UNRWA services in the occupied Palestinian territory, Lebanon, Syria and...

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From left: UNRWA Director of Operations in Jordan Roger Davies, German Ambassador Ralf Tarraf, Director General of Department of Palestinian affairs Eng. Mahmoud Akrabawi) © 2015 UNRWA Photo by Ahmad Abu Sitteh

UNRWA opens extension to Husn boys’ school

26 February 2015

H.E. the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Jordan, Ralph Tarraf, and the Director of UNRWA in Jordan, Roger Davies, opened the extension to Husn Preparatory Boys School in the Palestine refugee camp of Husn, in northern Jordan, on 24 February. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Director...

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