The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the international treaty on the protection of refugees, has been signed by 148 countries and is the chief legal protection for refugees around the world. The premise […]
Marking World Refugee Day, the Chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in exile, Maher Salah, stressed that his movement must face the conspiracies facing Palestinian refugees, a statement said. The Israeli occupation does […]
The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat […]
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Krahenbuhl said the UN agency is expected to end the year with a $211 million deficit. Speaking on the sidelines of […]
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter” is a popular adage within the African decolonial literary movement, and according to Palestinian author, Ramzy Baroud, it accurately describes how the […]
Germany will continue to support UN refugee agency UNRWA, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday. Maas told a press conference in Amman following talks with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi: “We see support […]
Sixty years ago today I entered this world. with native wonders and mysteries as my life unfurled I have felt God’s hand on me from earliest recall steadying me when I stumble, lifting me when […]
Many wonder why Israel continues to persecute the Palestinians in Gaza with such brutal repression. The answer is simple; Palestinians in Gaza pose a demographic and, indeed, an existential threat to the Jewish state, which […]
The United States and Israel on Wednesday called for dismantling the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Addressing the UN Security Council, US adviser Jason Greenblatt said UNRWA was a “bandaid” and that it was […]
UNRWA’s budget deficient now stands at $200 million, Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl revealed today. During a press conference at the agency’s regional headquarters in Gaza City, Krahenbuhl said: “The current budget deficit of the Agency’s budget is […]
Palestinian-American young filmmaker, Zarefah Baroud talks to her aunt in Gaza, Dr. Suma Baroud and her father, Palestinian author and journalist, Dr. Ramzy Baroud about the Nakba, growing up in a refugee camp and their […]
Every day at the Gaza Corniche, many refugees come from all over the besieged Gaza Strip to sit on chairs that carry the names of towns and villages from which they were expelled in 1947-48. […]
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said yesterday that the European Union will offer €22 million ($24.7 million) in humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s favorite catchphrase — “There is no Plan B” — must be remembered every time he utters anything claiming to support Palestinian refugees. The two-state compromise contradicts the already flawed Palestinian right […]
Despite good relations with the US, Jordan has a different view regarding the issue of Palestine and its refugees, Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Al-Safadi said yesterday. According to Assabeel, Al-Safadi said during a meeting with the […]
After the US withdrew financial support from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), it is the EU which became the largest donor to the organization. Yesterday, EU representative Ralph Tarraf […]
Palestinians are in dire need of humanitarian aid. So dire, in fact, that the EU has no qualms about conditioning financial aid in terms of acquiescence to the two-state paradigm. The United Nations Relief and […]
The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Pierre Krähenbühl, launched yesterday urgent appeals totaling $1.2 billion to fund basic services in 2019. Krähenbühl described the services that need urgent […]
Israeli Agriculture and Negev Development Minister Ori Ariel has completed a plan to displace about 36,000 Arabs from their “unrecognized” villages in the Negev (Naqab) region, Arab48 reported yesterday. Reporting Israel Hayom, Arab48 said that the Israeli government is to […]
Friends and Readers in Atlanta, GA I look forward to my speaking tour in your city and having the chance to meet and converse with some of you in person. If you wish to attend […]
Israeli authorities are set to shut down schools in occupied East Jerusalem run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as of next year. The move would come as the latest […]
The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran should pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful expulsion of Jews from Arab countries during […]
The Palestinian camps in the south of Lebanon have a special place in the history of resistance to Israeli aggression and expansionism. They, along with their Lebanese compatriots, were often on the front lines of […]
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that the People’s Republic of China has provided $2.35 million in support of the Agency’s emergency appeal for the […]
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) says it will cut its aid next year to over 190,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN agency […]
An eerie video of a photo of one “Hajj Jamal Ghalaini” with a prayer on a backing track pops up occasionally on Facebook. The voice is that of an allegedly religious sheikh, praying for the […]
Three-year-old Palestinian refugee Mohammad Wahbah was announced dead yesterday morning after he was denied treatment at Lebanese hospitals, Arab48 reported. Mohammad needed urgent brain surgery which his family could not afford and the hospital said […]
Ramzy Baroud: There is an absolute and urgent need for the Palestinian people to champion their own story, and to define the nature of solidarity. Without the Palestinian people being the central component of the […]
Lessons lost from Beirut to Ramallah The Palestinian resistance movement looked very different 45 years ago in the early 1970s. With a significant presence in Lebanon, the movement and international activists that supported it found […]
Israeli occupation forces demolished 16 Palestinian structures in the Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem this morning, Al Jazeera reported. The structures are commercial shops that constitute the main source of income for some […]
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