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	United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		UNRWA is a subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly and its mandate is renewed every three years.
		UNRWA issued a plea [4] to all parties to respect the neutrality of its ambulances, but the incident was captured on film and subsequently aired on Israeli television.
		UNRWA responded that since the outbreak of the current strife the United States government has been financing a programme of "Operations Support Officers", part of whose job is to make random and unannounced inspections of UNRWA facilities to ensure their sanctity from militant operations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UNRWA (3922 words)

	Palestinian Refugees - International Assistance - UNRWA
		UNRWA continues to provide education, health, and social services to refugees in need due to the lack of a durable solution based on international law as affirmed in Resolution 194(III).
		UNRWA provides emergency medical assistance, remedial education, food and cash assistance, psychological counseling, post-injury rehabilitation, as well as repair and reconstruction of refugee shelters and Agency infrastructure during political and humanitarian crises.
		Following the withdrawal of Israeli forces, UNRWA was left with the task of providing emergency care to the wounded as well as the families of the victims of some 3,000 refugees massacred by Israeli-allied Lebanese Phalangist militiamen in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila and the reconstruction of camps and Agency infrastructure.
	www.badil.org /Assistance/UNRWA.htm (944 words)

	[UNRWA:] The Refugee Curse - Middle East Forum
		UNRWA includes the refugees' children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as Palestinians who left their homes in 1967, all of whom add up to 4.25 million refugees.
		UNRWA's education, health, relief and social services have developed the human potential of the Palestine refugees enabling them to be self-reliant members of the societies in which they live.
		UNRWA itself is not mandated to solve the refugee problem, which is a political question for the parties to the conflict.
	www.meforum.org /article/pipes/1206 (896 words)

	UNRWA Official Homepage (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
		Since 2000, UNRWA has delivered emergency programming in West Bank and Gaza with the aim of protecting vulnerable refugee population from the worst effects of the countermeasures which Israel has deployed against the intifada.
		UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is a relief and human development agency, providing education, healthcare, social services and emergency aid to over four million refugees living in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and the Syrian Arab republic.
		UNRWA is by far the largest UN operation in the Middle East, with over 25,000 staff, almost all of them refugees themselves, working directly to benefit their communities - as teachers, doctors, nurses or social workers.
	www.un.org /unrwa (198 words)

	Refugees and UNRWA: A Love-Hate Story Half a Century Old - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA served as a stabilizing factor in a region that has been far from stable as a result of the conflicts and turmoil it has seen over the past 51 years.
		UNRWA's Public Information Officer, Matar Saqer, says that the tremendous improvement of the refugees conditions over the years is not attributable to UNRWA alone.
		Although UNRWA was set up as a temporary agency, it is still there; and the refugees are also still waiting for a final solution to their problem.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/israel-palestine/2001/0501unrwahist.htm (845 words)

	How the West Weakens Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As such, the UNRWA is the only UN refugee agency whose purpose is to keep refugees in nomadic tents rather than to facilitate their movement into decent and permanent housing conditions.
		And there is yet another ramification to current UNRWA policies and practices that maintain refugees in a state of perpetual disfranchisement and tell Palestinians their "right to return" is denied to them by Israel: it fuels terrorism.
		UNRWA camps have been transformed into the battleground of an armed insurrection where thousands of UNRWA camp residents brandish their weapons to demonstrate their support for the murder of Israeli Jews, especially those who now live in towns and collective farms that have replaced the 531 Arab villages lost in 1948.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=10331 (1457 words)

	Child Shot in UNRWA School Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		At 09:15hrs this morning, Ghadeer Jaber Mokheimer, a grade five pupil at UNRWA’s Co-Ed Elementary D School in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip died of her injuries from a gunshot wound received while sitting at her desk in an UNRWA school.
		Peter Hansen, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, expressed deeply felt sorrow at the news of this tragic death and said his thoughts are with her family.
		UNRWA is concerned that parents are growing increasingly fearful about sending their children to school in Gaza because of the level of violence they experience on their journeys and once they arrive.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/UNRWA_child_shot_gaza.htm (413 words)

	Jean Shaoul: Israel Moves to Impede UNRWA’s Relief to Palestinians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA warned that these malicious allegations were a prelude to more aggressive behaviour by Israel towards the UN in general and UN humanitarian staff in particular that would endanger the lives of UN personnel.
		The UN established UNRWA as a temporary humanitarian agency in 1949 in the aftermath of the establishment of the state of Israel that led to the expulsion and flight of more 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the British Mandate territory of Palestine.
		UNRWA is also responsible for the largest food aid programme in the West Bank and Gaza, with more than 188,000 families receiving food parcels in the six-month period to June 2004.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=4&id=1385 (1970 words)

	Why Does Canada Support UNRWA'S Incitement Of An Arab Rebellion?
		UNRWA educates the Palestinian refugee population that they have an absolute and "inalienable right of return" to any and all of the areas that they left in 1948, despite the fact that their towns and villages no longer exist.
		UNRWA legal advisors, whose salaries are paid for by the UNRWA donor countries, encourage UNRWA camp residents to make claims for their properties from before 1948.
		UNRWA officials justify their support for all this under their mandate to support UN resolution #194, which defines Palestinian human rights as the "inalienable right of return" to their homes from 1948, together with compensation.
	www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /un/unrwa.html (1801 words)

	Commission to increase support to UNRWA to EUR 237 million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA's goal is to promote the well-being of the refugees and strengthen the self-reliance of the refugee community.
		Financial support to UNRWA is a key element in the EU's strategy in the Middle East, which is designed to contribute actively to reducing tension and providing a minimum of stability.in order to allow the parties to pursue their quest for peace.
		UNRWA also provides educational services to over 6,000 trainees at the 8 vocational training centres and the three education science faculties in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/gaza/news/ip02_1438.htm (676 words)

	Aid Worker Shot In The Back By Israeli Forces, UNRWA Says
		UNRWA protested to the Israeli Defense Forces about the treatment of one of the agency's international staff members and her family, who it said were subject to degrading searches and unjustified detention in Bethlehem last week.
		UNRWA added that Israeli authorities are holding 23 of its Palestinian staff members in the West Bank, all but three without charge.
		UNRWA has requested an explanation for each arrest, but has received no reply and has been refused access to those being held (U.N. release II, Nov. 26).
	www.unwire.org /unwire/20021127/30631_story.asp (777 words)

	UNRWA
		UNRWA reports to the GA. However, according to an UNRWA publication, “unlike most other UN organizations [it] is an operational agency performing specific tasks of a governmental character”…and “therefore has a highly developed administrative autonomy, with its own self-contained administration.”[2] This high degree of functional autonomy is of considerable significance in understanding UNRWA’s current situation.
		UNRWA’s mandate is humanitarian. This requires UNRWA to place the humanitarian concerns of the refugees at the top of its agenda. Reporting on the difficulties in the camps in order to secure assistance for the sake of the refugees is something UNRWA would be expected to readily do.
		The status quo with regard to UNRWA policies and practices cannot be permitted to continue. It fosters terrorism, is antagonistic to the establishment of peace in the Middle East, and works to the detriment of the well being of the refugees themselves.
	canadiancoalition.com /unrwa/UNRWA_TerrorReport.html (6227 words)

	Jerusalem Summit Condemns UNRWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For half a century UNRWA has funneled billions of dollars to perpetuate the status of "Palestinians as refugees." But unlike all other refugees in the world, Palestinian refugees, according to UNRWA's definition include not only those who became refugees, but all of their descendents as well.
		UNRWA also includes anyone who applied for relief, regardless of when they arrived or where they came from.
		UNRWA is not part of the solution, experts concluded; it is at the core of the problem.
	www.frontpagemagazine.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16226 (1037 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		As it is, UNRWA and the Arab League hold Palestinian refugees in limbo.
		UNRWA operates 27 refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, and another 32 camps in neighboring Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
		Unfortunately, UNRWA is not alone in reinforcing the U.N.'s reputation as an organization incapable of fighting terror.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=105001943 (1016 words)

	TheRaphi.com - UNRWA To Help Expelled Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA does not say âPalestinian.â (The term âPalestinianâ is a modern and deliberately contrived lie to trick the world into believing that Arabs/Muslims were the original âPalestinians.â In fact, the Arabs/Muslims occupying Jewish Palestine adopted their lie in the mid 1960s.
		First and foremost, UNRWA is obligated to start gearing up for the people about to be made refugees in their own land (designated by the world as âPalestineâ) by the Israeli government.
		This means that UNRWA must aid and assist the residents of Gush Katif and the other towns in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) slated for ethnic cleansing.
	www.theraphi.com /bgoodtree/uthej.html (845 words)

	Welcome to :: United Nations - Syria
		UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - was established by General Assembly Resolution 302 in December 1949 to deliver humanitarian assistance to some 750,000 Palestinians who became refugees as a consequence of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, and their direct descendants.
		UNRWA was created as a temporary organization to provide direct relief and longer-term works’ programmes to the Palestine refugees, in collaboration with the local host Governments, without prejudice to the rights of the refugees to repatriation or compensation.
		UNRWA provides services to over 401,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria: in Damascus city and the surrounding countryside and in and around Aleppo, Lattakia, Hama, Homs and Dera’a.
	unrwa.un.org.sy (659 words)

	ei: UNRWA: Alarmed at Demolitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA has opened a school to house the latest victims of the destruction and is distributing tents, food, water, kitchen kits, mattresses and blankets.
		UNRWA has so far built 288 new housing units for 301 refugee families in the Gaza Strip.
		However, UNRWA is facing severe under funding of its Emergency Appeal for the occupied Palestinian territory in 2004 and is unlikely to receive all the resources it needs to meet the needs of the homeless.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article2673.shtml (603 words)

	Palestinian Refugees in Jordanian UNRWA Camps
		UNRWA later replaced the tents with pre-fabricated shelters and the refugees themselves have now replaced the prefabs with concrete structures.
		UNRWA coordinates with the Jordanian government's Department of Palestinian Affairs (DPA) as well as with the camps' improvement committees.
		UNRWA Headquarters Amman and the UNRWA Jordan Field Office are both located in Amman.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/UN/unrwa4.html (783 words)

	JINSA Online -- Resolution on UNRWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA is financed by voluntary contributions and not from UN dues assessments.
		That the UNRWA administered camps are filled with weapons is beyond dispute and has been acknowledged by UNRWA personnel in statements to the media.
		The U.S. contribution for UNRWA camps in Gaza and the West Bank shall be reduced each year by a proportionate amount when fewer than one-third of the camps have not been transferred to UNHCR administration.
	www.jinsa.org /articles/view.html?documentid=1588 (932 words)

	Terrorist organizations exploit UNRWA vehicles
		The spokesman noted that UNRWA censured the action “in the strongest terms possible.” He also noted that armed personnel are not permitted to enter UNRWA vehicles on any pretext whatsoever, and called upon Israel and the Palestinians to respect the agency's neutrality.
		Nahd Rashid Ahmad Atallah, a senior UNRWA employee working in the Gaza Strip who was in charge of distributing aid to refugees (arrested in August 2002), admitted that during June and July 2002 he had given rides in his car – an UNRWA vehicle – to armed terrorists belonging to the Popular Resistance Committees.
		He also used his UNRWA car to transport a bomb weighing 12 kg (about 25 lbs) to his brother-in-law, a Popular Resistance Committees operative (Note: the Popluar Resistance Committees are a militant faction of Fatah and are active primarily in the Gaza Strip).
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/5_04/unrwa.htm (525 words)

	UNRWA in Transition
		UNRWA will continue to face financial difficulties and refugee per capita funding will decline because of the natural increase of the client population and donor resistance to expanded funding of ongoing programs.
		UNRWA will seek to avoid engaging in activities and discussions that it perceives to entail political liabilities for its relations with hosts, clients, and donors.
		Following 1., UNRWA might be proposed as a long-term administration and technical services provider to the host states, rather than the primary operational agency in education and health activities.
	www.arts.mcgill.ca /mepp/prrn/papers/transition.html (2006 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: UN Dollars for Terror by Arlene Kushner
		It is from this population that UNRWA draws managers; teachers; social workers; custodial workers; clerks; and medical personnel.
		The UNRWA does not note terrorist convictions on refugee registration cards, does not receive (or seek out) information on terrorist related convictions of beneficiaries, and does not ask beneficiaries if they have engaged in terrorism.
		The UNRWA, however, presents another reason for looking the other way, which is also credible: There is a fear that UNRWA staff would be in danger if questions were asked or benefits cut, especially since staff is vulnerably housed in or near the camps and their families are known to terrorists.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14703 (1556 words)

	Israpundit: Do Away With UNRWA
		While UNRWA self-identifies as a humanitarian ('relief and human development") agency, on the record it is clear that it is deeply involved in political matters—most specifically direct support for "right of return"—and has been from its genesis.
		UNRWA was established by UN General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV), which assigns to the new agency the sole task of "carrying out direct relief and works programs" for the Palestinian Arab refugees.
		Were UNRWA purely humanitarian in its function, it would be providing services to the refugees while allowing others concerned with the politics of the situation to resolve the matter of return as versus resettlement.
	www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/10/do_away_with_u.php (883 words)

	CONFERENCE ON MEETING THE HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES OPENS IN GENEVA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In his opening remarks, Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, said that the gathering was a testimony of the international community to the growing needs of the Palestinian refugees and was being held at an historic moment.
		As a consequence, it was hoped that UNRWA would, once again, be in the vanguard in the region in the areas of health, education, social welfare and vocational training.
		The under-funding of UNRWA’s budget was reflected in over-crowded classrooms and clinics, and in the decaying infrastructure of the Agency, the Secretary-General noted.
	www.unog.ch /news2/documents/newsen/m04015e.htm (1414 words)

	The American Israel Public Affairs Committee: America's Pro-Israel Lobby. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UNRWA camps have become the main operating centers for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and PFLP, terrorist groups responsible for the killing of hundreds of Israelis and the injuring of thousands.
		While UNRWA is responsible for all aspects of the administration of the camps, the U.N. has ceded control to the terrorist elements operating within them.
		UNRWA operates one of the largest school systems in the Middle East, with 266 schools and 242,000 students.
	www.aipac.org /documents/aipacfacts16.html (580 words)

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