The United Nations Creates an Agency to Aid Palestinian Refugees
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs
- Subcategories: Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Disaster Relief, Asylum, Refugees
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Egypt, Middle East, Kuwait, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan
- Date: December 9, 1949
Article abstract: Lack of political will to solve the problems of Palestinian refugees led to the establishment of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
Summary of Event
The Palestinian refugees are a primarily Arab population who have been uprooted from their homes and land by the wars and political problems that have plagued the Middle East since the partition of Palestine in 1947. Of more than one million people in Palestine at that time, approximately two-thirds were rural peasants and one-third were professionals,...
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