Lebanon

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Nov-20/238373-after-surviving-death-boat-palestinians-locked-up-in-egypt.ashx#axzz2lGeNfv5d A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, sits behind a fence as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip November 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: After...

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2013/11/19/palestinians-from-syria-the-worst-treatment-of-all/?cid=otr-partner_site-Israel_hayom There are over 500,000 Palestinian “refugees” in Syria, as counted by the UN agency handling Palestinian “refugees,” the UN Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. The quotation marks are especially apt in this case,...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174219#.UowA_ycUZiJ On Tuesday the UN announced it will not pay wages next month to thousands of workers in the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) due to a growing financial crisis. The cancellation of wages comes...

http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=483&ArticleID=2598 Satellite photography taken of the site near Latakia in Syria, which foreign publications claim was the site of an Israeli attack nearly 10 days ago, prove that the targets of the attack were advanced...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/38124/38124 For those Yiddishly challenged this translates as a pain in the posterior. No doubt the diplomatic fraternity will be frantically trying to play this latest revelation down and bury it under the proverbial carpet...

http://www.menewsline.com/ The United States, breaking away from official nuclear talks, could unfreeze Iranian assets in exchange for Teheran's pledge to limit uranium enrichment, a report said. The Middle East Media and Research Institute asserted that President...

http://jcpa.org/hamas-strategy-manipulate-human-rights-groups/ Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh delivered a speech at the Rashad a-Shawa Center in Gaza on October 19, 2013, detailing Hamas’ positions on various issues, including adhering to the armed struggle to liberate all...

UNRWA's Educational Activity in the Middle East UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East - was established in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of...

Israel's national ethos is one of self-reliance. International peacekeepers have been proven unreliable in the Middle East in every instance. The Israeli army has been deployed along the steep slopes of the Jordan Valley...

http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/10/aid-for-palestinians-breaking-down-walls-or-building-them-higher/ A photo of a UNRWA school in Gaza after it was shelled by Israeli forces. Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international...