Word: unrwa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaza City. With a little work by the Egyptians, many of the 215,000 refuges could have been resettled, but Nasser has left them on the Israeli border as a potential weapon in any all-out attack on Israel. Although I was refused access to the camps themselves, an UNRWA representative, who had just come from distributing the first food and water the camps had received for days, said that there had been some 500 casualties in the camp of Jabalia alone. An Israel officer in Gaza City admitted that no Israeli troops had dared venture into the compounds because...
...area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project...
...space to take back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle 100,000 Arabs, but has since withdrawn the offer). The Palestinian Arabs are now wards of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Typical are the 32,235 refugees in UNRWA's Akbet Jaber Camp. a ragged sprawl of mud-brick huts roofed with reeds that is said to be Jordan's fourth largest city...
...Resettled. In Akbet Jaber's modern, whitewashed UNRWA food dispensary, refugees with ration cards line up once a month for issues of flour, sugar and rice equal to 1,600 calories daily. So desirable are the ration cards that a brisk black-market trade has their current market value at $430 apiece. Because of this, no one ever dies in Akbet Jaber or in any Arab refugee camp, or at least deaths are not reported, and the deceased's card is not surrendered. As a result, an estimated 300,000 card carriers are not refugees...