UNRWA
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Palestine War and subsequent conflicts, as well as their patrilineal descendants, including legally adopted children.
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See also
- American Near East Refugee Aid
- International aid to Palestinians
- Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
- 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
- Palestine and the United Nations
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- List of Directors and Commissioners-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- Nahr al-Bared
- Palestinian refugee
- Palestinian people
- Taylor Force Act
- Textbooks in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
- Hamas–UNRWA Holocaust dispute
- Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
- Use of human shields by Hamas
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