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Acting Director of the UNRWA Education Programme, Mr. Moritz Bilagher (centre), joins the delegation UNRWA TVET students at the RewirED Global Education Summit at the Dubai Expo2020 on 14 December 2021. © 2021 UNRWA Photo

UNRWA Students Participate in ReWirED Education Summit at Dubai Expo 2020

15 December 2021
Palestine refugee students from UNRWA Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Centres across the Middle East participated in the RewirEd Global Education Summit from 12-14 December 2021.
From left: Mr. Karim Amer, UNRWA Director of Partnerships, Mr. Giuseppe Fedele, Italian Consul General in Jerusalem and Mr. Guglielmo Giordano, Director Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) sign a funding agreement for EUR 2M in support of Palestine refugee students in the occupied West Bank. © 2021 UNRWA Photo by Lucrezia Vittori

The Government of Italy contributes a total of EUR 3 million towards UNRWA services in the West Bank and Syria

14 December 2021
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the Government of Italy signed an EUR 2 million agreement in support of Palestine refugee students in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Gaza Field Office Press Statement

14 December 2021
On 10 December 2021 a group of youth, who had been participating in a Hamas anniversary march in Gaza, forced their way past guards and into the UNRWA Jabalia Elementary Co-ed C and D school, where they pulled down an UNRWA flag from an antenna on the roof of the building...
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini (left) is joined by H.E. Naif bin Bandar al-Sidairi, the Ambassador of the Kingdom to Saudi Arabia to Jordan (left), in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the newly-constructed, Saudi-funded UNRWA Amman New Camp Preparatory Boys School No. 2 on 13 December 2021. © 2021 UNRWA Photo

UNRWA inaugurates the Saudi-Funded Amman New Camp School in Jordan

13 December 2021
The Saudi Ambassador to Jordan, H.E Mr. Naif bin Bandar al-Sidairi, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, and the Deputy of the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Jordan Mr...
From left: Mr. Hans Rieck, KfW Senior Sector Coordinator, Mr. David Kunze, KfW Office Director, H.E. Oliver Owcza, German Representative in Ramallah and Mr. Karim Amer, UNRWA Director of Partnerships, sign funding agreements totaling EUR 21 million from the Government of Germany, through KfW Development Bank in support of Palestine refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory. © 2021 UNRWA Photo by Lucrezia Vittori

Germany Contributes EUR 21 Million in Support of UNRWA Education and Health Services

10 December 2021
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the Government of Germany through KfW Development Bank signed agreements in support of Palestine refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, amounting to a total...

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