The recent war on Gaza caused great suffering among the 1.5 Palestinians who live there. The UN estimated that at one point during the war 500,000 people were displaced from their homes. Some 4,000 dwellings were destroyed, forcing homeless families with nowhere else to go to live in tents.

from day one of the war, LIFE for Relief and Development delivered food medical supplies, ambulances, blankets, tents, and other relief items to beneficiaries across the Gaza Strip.

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The 2010 Iraq Humanitarian Action Plan (IHAP) is a continuation of the inter-agency consolidated appeal process launched for Iraq in 2008 and expanded to Iraq and the Region in 2009. The 2010 IHAP is a joint humanitarian strategy for Iraq in 2010. It is not characterised as a consolidated appeal per se, in that it is not accompanied by detailed project proposals (although it is intended to facilitate fund-raising for humanitarian operations in the country).

The new funds represent a crucial response to the Agency's financial crisis, and will enable it to maintain the current high level of its educational activities throughout this school year, while

Director Dr. Ray Jureidini,

Distinguished guests, faculty and students of the CMRS and AUC:

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I extend warm thanks to the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies and the American University of Cairo for hosting me this evening. At the end of this month I retire as Commissioner-General of UNRWA after more than 28 years of professional refugee service. I, therefore, very much welcome this opportunity to share some departing thoughts with

Guterres, addressing more than 300 delegates in Geneva's Palais des Nations at the opening of his third annual Dialogue on Protection Challenges, said growing urbanization was "compounded by influxes of displaced people obliged to abandon their homes by the threat

AMMAN - His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday underlined the significance of UNRWA's work and the need to improve its capabilities so that it can continue to provide humanitarian services for Palestinian refugees.

The meeting came at the same time as the agency said it needs $49 million to improve its services in refugee camps in Jordan.

Mahi Abdul Latif, the agency's senior external relations adviser, told The Jordan Times that this money, which is not part of the relief agency's general budget, would be used to rehabilitate

A naturally shy boy, Omar's life started coming apart when his father, a policeman in Baghdad, was shot dead by militiamen. He remembers the news of his father's death coming as a great shock. "At that moment, we knew that staying in Baghdad was no longer possible," the boy recalled.

As of 5 December 2009, 23:00 hours, Cairo time, 43,650 laboratory-confirmed cases of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 were reported to WHO by 22 out of 22 Member States of WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. There are 452 related deaths from Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 reported, so far, from 18 Member States in the Region. These deaths were reported from Islamic Republic of Iran (140), Saudi Arabia (81), Syrian Arab Republic (50), Oman (27),), Kuwait (27), Iraq (26), Yemen (22), Egypt (21),), Afghanistan (14),

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I am pleased to represent the United States Government in expressing its support of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). As we acknowledge next week the 60th anniversary of the passage of the resolution that called for establishment of UNRWA, the United States remains committed to supporting the agency's critical mandate.

In 2009, the United States continued