Though the Balfour Declaration called for the protection of Palestinian-owned land and religious rights, Palestinians argue ...

Palestinian refugees are defined as "persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result ...

Israeli officials have rejected UNRWA’s definition of which Palestinians are eligible for refugee status, arguing that descendants of the 1948 refugees do not qualify and thus don’t have the ...

The violence surrounding the creation of Israel in 1948 displaced close to a million ... when he says the agency “perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem.” Philippe Lazzarini, the Swiss ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday to save it from an ...

Gaza was “one of the few Palestinian cities that survived the 1948 Nakba … Gaza City became a city that was teeming with all these refugees who were displaced from their lands, and ...

Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering a displaced family in the central part of the Gaza ...

Palestinians receive aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, in Nusairat refugee ... their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel ...

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday ... were expelled from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment ...