In part this is because millions more are uprooted but do not count as refugees if they stay within their own countries, such as most of the 2.7m Darfuris made homeless by fighting in western Sudan.The official figures also ignore 4.2m Palestinians whose families were displaced by war in 1948 after Israel was founded and who, by a quirk of history, are helped by another UN body, UNRWA.
And so it would be, if the dispute were not more about the acknowledgment of rights and principles than about the actual movement of people.Some 3.6m people, or rather over half the Palestinian population, are registered by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as refugees.
Hotheads snipe at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides for 1m-plus Gazan refugees, accusing it of turning into a security outfit, and labelling its few foreign personnel as spooks.
The responsibility for the legal dimensions of their fate lies elsewhere, as UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd made clear at UNRWA's anniversary ceremony in New York on 24 September, before an audience that included Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Queen Rania of Jordan – herself a Palestinian.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 7.52pm BST19:52 UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, has said the number of people seeking refuge in Gaza has risen above 100,000: — Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) July 21 , 2014BREAKING NEWS: The number of people seeking refuge with UNRWA in #Gaza has exceeded 100,000.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.37pm BST14:37 Refugees may not have been targeted, says UNWRA Although "intensive armed engagements" around the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus have killed and wounded Palestinians, there is no evidence of Palestinians being targeted, according to a spokesman for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees.
Tweeting on Wednesday night, Gunness added: "UNRWA is monitoring case of Wael al-Sahlee & calls on all authorities to offer him protection according to international standards".
Refugee homes and properties and UNRWA installations have also been damaged during the armed engagements.
UNRWA said the number of people seeking refuge in Gaza has risen above 100,000.
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) July 21 , 2014BREAKING NEWS: Dubai begins humanitarian airlift for UNRWA in #Gaza RT Updated at 9.51am BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.21am BST09:21 Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinian militants on Monday after they crossed the border from Gaza through two tunnels, the military said.
Speaking to the Guardian earlier this month, Chris Gunness, the spokesman for UNRWA, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, described Sahlee's case as "a terrible and very painful example of the added vulnerabilities that Palestinians have.
