Word: unrwa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNRWA's mandate is to serve Palestinian refugees. To achieve this goal, the headquarters in Vienna agreed to Mr. Berri's conditions," the spokeswoman said. She declined to be named...
Roselah Hodrasadi, 37, clad in a long, soiled skirt and a black kerchief, is hacking away at the earth with a pick. She is trying to build a house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums...
...cluster of twisted steel supports, someone will claim it and try to build a hut around it. There are women of all ages. There are children everywhere, who chase one another through the ruins and occasionally, oblivious to the danger, scramble into the shovels of the moving UNRWA tractors. One sees few men. Some are dead; others have been detained by the Israelis, who still make sorties into the camp in search of Palestine Liberation Organization suspects. One of those imprisoned was Hodrasadi's son Ibrahim, 18, who had recently undergone three abdominal operations. "They had no right...
...while others try to sabotage the relief operation. At Ein el Hilweh, some recently supplied tents have been slashed or set afire, while new sewer pipes and water faucets have been broken or pilfered. "We've made some progress," says Dennis Brown, an American who works for UNRWA. "But it has been a few steps forward, a few steps backward the whole time...