Important News
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- Israeli colonists continue attacking Palestinians, their properties in Masafer Yatta
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- Palestinian national heritage committee calls on UNESCO to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations at Sebastia archaeological site
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- PCBS: 77 years after Nakba, Palestinian population has increased nearly 10-fold
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- German Government alarmed by developments in Gaza
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- One killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza city
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- Cabinet holds meeting in Tulkarm; PM affirms government continues efforts to alleviate residents' suffering
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- Israeli forces continue to demolish homes in Nour Shams camp amid ongoing offensive
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- Armed colonists graze their sheep near Palestinian residents' homes south of Hebron
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- UN organizations: 2.1 million Gazans face starvation, as Israeli genocide continues
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- Tulkarm: 106 days since Israel's aggression began on the city and refugee camps
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Ban Ki- Moon Calls for Supporting Palestinian Refugees
AMMAN, November 20, 2007(WAFA)) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed to donors to maintain support for the cash-strapped UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
In a letter read out at the opening of a conference of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Amman, Ban said “I encourage donors to maintain the favourable funding trends of the last 18 months, and thus ensure that the organisational development process is brought to fruition in due course.â€
"We further acknowledge that a just and durable solution to the refugee issue should be an integral part of the peaceful resolution" to the Arab-Israeli conflict, he said in the letter.
The fate of the refugees is one of the thorniest issues in the conflict, as Israel rejects Palestinian demands to allow their return to lands abandoned during the 1948 war when the Jewish state was founded.
The two-day conference is to discuss the situation facing some 4.3 million refugees and their descendants in the care of the agency in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
