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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...
...control in the occupied territories and another million and a half make up a Palestinian diaspora. Roughly 500,00 of the overall number of three million live in refugee camps in the occupied territories and in the neighboring Arab countries maintained by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA...
...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...