Refugees

On the 5th Brussels conference on "Supporting the Future of Syria and of the Region", the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reiterated its call to support Palestine refugees who are in Syria and in neighboring countries, said an UNRWA press release.

Rights groups say Israel's 'separation policy' is keeping apart dozens of families.

This programme awards scholarships to disadvantaged youth and in-service teachers. Launching in spring 2021, the new programme will grant 339 scholarships over the next eight years.

A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared with 39.5 percent in the rest of Palestine.

According to the Committee, the imminent demolition of the 100 Palestinian homes in Silwan’s Al-Bustan will displace 1550 people, most of whom are women and children.

Since the launch of the project in April 2020, which has also been run in Jordan and Haiti, around 20 people have been fitted in Gaza, an enclave of two million Palestinians wedged between the Zionist regime, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Zionist regime’s occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his house in the East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) neighborhood of Silwan, according to local sources.

Mohammed Rashwan is worried for his family of 10 after a decision from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to reduce aid to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says what Zionist regime’ is doing in demolishing Palestinian homes and displacing women and children is “a war crime” that can be punished under international law.

The Israeli occupation authorities demolished or confiscated 89 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank in two weeks and displaced 146 Palestinian citizens, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.

Report: Zionist regime has demolished nearly 166,000 Palestinian homes since it was forged on the land of Palestine in 1948.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas slammed Israeli occupation for ethnically cleansing the Palestinians by proceeding with its policy of home demolitions.