Tag Archives: IDPs

Sands of Sorrow – video

  Sands of Sorrow (1950); On the plight of Arab refugees from the Arab-Israeli war. Dorothy Thompson speaks on the refugee problem. Refugees live in tents in the Gaza Strip, are given blankets and food by Egyptian soldiers, and receive flour from UNICEF. A Lebanese priest conducts services. Refugees work as plumbers, carpenters, tailors, and […]

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ANERA Helps Disabled in Madaba Camp, Jordan

14.05.11 – 13:29 | PNN Amman – ANERA Media to PNN – The American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) announced the launch of a project in Jordan to help disabled children in Madaba Camp for Palestinian refugees and the surrounding area. The year-long, three-phase program will identify cases of visual and hearing impairment and other […]

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IRIN : Aid work delayed by barriers

Photo: Erica Silverman/IRIN Truckloads of humanitarian aid and commercial goods bottle-necked at Kerem Shalom crossing along the Gaza-Israel border RAMALLAH, 10 May 2011 (IRIN) – The delivery of humanitarian aid to the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) has been hampered by severe restrictions on staff movements, hurting the quality, scope and sustainability of operations, say the […]

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Blowback: Israel’s bogus narrative on Palestinian refugees

April 12, 2011 |  3:18 pm | Opninion LA Ghada Karmi, author of “In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story,” responds to The Times’ April 7 article on Lifta, the last intact pre-1948 Palestinian village. If you would like to write a full-length response to a recent Times article, editorial or Op-Ed, here are our FAQs […]

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Palestine refugee women bring human face of conflict to Brussels

Palestine refugees share personal stories of repercussions of Israeli blockade on life in Gaza. Middle East Online | By Miriam Aced – BRUSSELS ‘Keep the human approach’ “They say Gaza people can cope with everything. But why do we have to? We just want to lead a normal life.” Medical doctor Ghada Al-Jadba is one […]

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PHRF: UNRWA disregards lives of Palestinian refugees

[ 29/03/2011 – 10:25 AM ]   BEIRUT, (PIC)– The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation has condemned the UN Relief Works Agency for what it called ”disregard for the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.” The foundation called on UNRWA director in Lebanon Salvatore Lombardi to step down, ”as his time has only seen failure and […]

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Serving the Refugees of Dheisheh Camp: an Insight into the Popular Committee

25.03.11 – 23:11 By Alessandra Bajec – On a visit to Al-Feneiq Cultural Center, meeting with well-respected Naji Owdah seemed to be a worthwhile opportunity to familiarise with what work is done by a popular committee inside a refugee camp, and how the needs of people living in Dheisheh are served. The views presented here […]

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Story of Chile’s Palestinian Refugee Community, Past and Present

Al Tanf refugee camp. (MAP) By Douglas Smith| Palestine Chronicle | March 16, 2011 From the outset, Chile is probably one of the last countries one would consider when trying to understand the effects of the Nakba and the depth of the ongoing Palestinian refugee crisis. Geopolitically, it could not be any farther away from […]

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Calls on Facebook for millions to march for right of return

[ 03/03/2011 – 10:00 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian activists have used the Facebook social network calling to a peaceful million man march for the Palestinian refugees’ right of return due to kick off May 15. Dubbed ”the 2011 march of return”, it aims to ensure that every last exiled Palestinian returns to the […]

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Jihad slams Lebanese gov’t for changing law concerning Palestinian refugees

[ 27/02/2011 – 01:29 PM ]   BEIRUT, (PIC)– The Islamic Jihad Movement said that the amendment made to the law of labor and social security in Lebanon only serves the policy of resettlement that is rejected by the Palestinian people, calling on the Lebanese government and parliament to reconsider this law. In a press […]

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ei: Refuge and return

Lamya Hussain writing from Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp, Live from Palestine, 8 February 2011 Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp (Al Jazeera English) “Where would you like to go?” asks a taxi driver a little older than my father, his thick Lebanese accent I barely understand. I reply politely, “Off the airport road to Bourj al-Barajneh.” “The […]

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ei: Refugee rights of little concern to PA, documents reveal

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 25 January 2011 The Palestine Papers reveals how Palestinian negotiators bartered the rights of refugees. (MaanImages) More has been revealed in the Palestine Papers, Al Jazeera’s expose that uncovers internal documents and secret correspondence from the last decade of negotiations between the Israeli government, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority and the United […]

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Japan Donates $10 M for Palestine refugees

23/01/2011 04:05:05 PM GMT France Provides €4 million for Gaza Wastewater Treatment Plant Date : 19/10/2010   Time : 18:45 JERUSALEM, October 19, 2010 (WAFA)- On Sunday 17 of October 2010, at Ministry of Planning, Mr Dov Zerah, CEO of the French Development Agency (AFD), Dr Ali Jarbawi, Minister of Planning and Administration Development (MOPAD) and Mr […]

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Shuafat in Clashes enter their third day running

Friday, 21 January, 2011 | 23:26  « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Shuafat in Clashes enter their third day running Violent clashes are currently underway in Shuafat Camp, East Jerusalem. Confrontations broke out between Palestinian residents and Israeli military, who fired tear gas around Palestinian homes. 7 Palestinians were […]

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Baraka discusses refugees’ affairs in Lebanon with UNRWA officials

[ 20/01/2011 – 09:39 AM ]   BEIRUT, (PIC)– Hamas representative in Lebanon Ali Baraka conferred with director of UNRWA affairs in Lebanon Salvatore Lombardo at UNRWA headquarters in Beirut on Wednesday on means of improving living conditions of Palestinian refugees in the country. The meeting also attended by three Hamas political officials in Lebanon […]

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