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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
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......major UN agency dealing with Palestine refugees. By 2009 more than 4.6 million refugees and their descendents who...them living in 58 UNWRA refugee camps. Originally the agency...charged with the care of the refugees until they could be repatriated...the Arab states, and the ......
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Gaza Strip
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......was formerly SW Palestine, now officially administered by the Palestinian Authority. People...by Sunni Muslim Palestinian refugees; the majority...overcrowded refugee camps. Arabic...Great Britain's Palestine mandate from the...to an influx of Palestinian Arab refugees ......
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refugee
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......independence, in mass movements of refugees across national borders...there were close to 7 million refugees in Africa, including 4...expanded an already swollen Palestinian refugee population in the Middle...numbers of Southeast Asian refugees; the India-Pakistan War......
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Jenin
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......also the site of a large Palestinian refugee camp. The town's economy...War I, became part of the Palestine mandate (1923–48...by Jordan. A center of Palestinian guerrilla activity after...1995, when it came under Palestinian control. Jenin was the......
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United Nations
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......Administration, the International Refugee Organization (whose responsibilities...United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which is still......
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Arab-Israeli Wars
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......League of Nations mandate for Palestine in 1920. From 1945 to 1948...British troops and against Palestinian Arabs supported by the Arab...addition, about 400,000 Palestinian Arabs had fled from Israel and were settled in refugee camps near Israel's border...during the early 1960s, with ......
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West Bank
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......formerly part of Palestine, after 1949 administered...mid-1994 limited Palestinian self-rule has existed...large, impoverished refugee camps; 17% are Jewish...resulting in hundreds of Palestinian deaths, property...economic hardship as Palestinian workers returned en...between Israel and ......
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Bethlehem (town, West Bank)
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......the British-administered Palestine mandate from 1922 until...militarily by Israeli troops. Palestinian refugee camps were located nearby...process of establishing Palestinian self-rule in the West...the city was the scene of Palestinian-Israeli fighting in the......
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Amman
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......World War II, when Amman absorbed Arab refugees from Palestine. The city's growth was further boosted by Lebanese refugees and capital in the 1970s, and by remittances from Jordanian and Palestinian workers in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s......
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Beirut
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......War II and the creation of Israel in 1948, thousands of Palestinian refugees entered Lebanon, many settling in Beirut. Violence erupted...Beirut was devastated in 1982 by Israeli forces fighting Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) units based there. A multinational......