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Nakba day: “My hope is to return to Palestine and live in peace”

Read thoughts from staff in MAP’s team in Lebanon on the Nakba and their lives as Palestinian refugees.

Joint statement: The UK must show leadership on UNRWA and the rights of Palestinian refugees

Joint statement on behalf of 15 UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations, calling on the UK to show leadership on UNRWA and the rights of Palestinian refugees.

Further US aid cuts threaten to deepen Gaza humanitarian emergency

The US State Department announced on Friday 24 August that it is cutting an additional $200m of funding for charities providing medical assistance, food aid, employment assistance and other humanitarian services in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Gaza update: Teenage fisherman killed and Palestinians injured

On Sunday 25 February a Palestinian teenager, 18-year-old Ismail Saleh Abu Reyala, was killed by Israeli forces while fishing off the coast of northern Gaza.

US withdrawal of UNRWA funding endangers the lives of Palestinian refugees

The US Government announced on Tuesday that it has halved its planned funding to the UN agency responsible for humanitarian support to Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).