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Topic: UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

March 13, 2013
3:01 am

A Palestinian man walks in front of a mural calling for the return of Palestinian refugees (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Taking refugees off the table

A new effort is underway, backed by Israel, to tackle ‘the major hurdle to peace:’ how the UN defines a Palestinian refugee

By Haviv Rettig Gur

March 6, 2013
9:25 am

The Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Syrian refugees top 1 million, UN says

Number of displaced civilians from Syrian civil war swells, straining economies of host countries

February 25, 2013
9:30 am

Eritrean migrants in South Tel Aviv (photo credit: Nicky Kelvin/Flash90)

UN rep says Eritreans being forced out of Israel

Jerusalem accused of violating international law with repatriation of asylum seekers under threat of lengthy jail terms

By Asher Zeiger

February 17, 2013
5:55 pm

Syrian rebels stand in the rubble of buildings damaged by government airstrikes, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, February 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

UN refugee guidelines would complicate return of Syrian asylum-seekers

The arrival in Israel of seven wounded Syrians on Saturday raises possibility that more could come in the future

By Matti Friedman

January 22, 2013
7:11 pm

A Syrian refugee boy runs to his family tent at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, on January 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Flow of Syrian refugees into Jordan intensifies

About 3,000 have fled civil war for Hashemite kingdom each night for the past five days

By Dale Gavlak

January 9, 2013
10:05 am

A civilian looks at a destroyed home in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Andoni Lubaki)

Jordan turns away Palestinian refugees fleeing violence in Syria

‘Jordan is not obligated to pay a political price for the Syrian crisis,’ government spokesman explains

By Elhanan Miller

October 18, 2012
2:34 pm

Syrian men walk down a street between destroyed buildings in Syria (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Over 150,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Egypt

Airstrikes in northern Syria kill more than 20 in overnight attacks

October 5, 2012
6:54 am

A Syrian refugee stands next to a pile of mattresses and packaged milk in Amman, given out as aid to refugees, Amman, September 23 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

In Jordan, Syrians get Korans with their powdered milk

Refugees who fled Assad are in need not only of food, but also of spiritual guidance, says Salafi NGO executive

By Elhanan Miller

September 6, 2012
11:47 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and cabinet members at the defense budget meeting in Tel Aviv Wednesday (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Loose lips sink cabinets

Netanyahu wants to know which of his ministers is talking to the press. Some papers want to know where Mr. Leaky himself gets off

By Joshua Davidovich

September 3, 2012
3:57 pm

For Hanan Ashrawi, no cats in America

Top ludicrous denial of the existence of Jewish refugees flies in the face of decades of Palestinian acknowledgment — and denunciation — of the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries

By Lyn Julius

September 1, 2012
4:11 pm

A Syrian refugee plays with her child in front of her family's tent in the Zaatari Syrian Refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan. (photo credit: Mohammad Hannon/AP)

Amman, UN call for $700 million to handle Syrian refugees

Victims of civil war flood into Jordan by the thousands; 180,000 have arrived already

August 28, 2012
3:06 pm

A Syrian girl washes up in the Zaatari Refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

UN: 3,300 Syrian refugees latest to reach Jordan

Syria’s southern neighbor already hosts more than 160,000 refugees

August 25, 2012
8:49 am

Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt in 2010. (photo credit: AP/Assaf Golan)

After years-long influx, Israel begins to stanch flow of African migrants

Get-tough approach may come with a price as activists argue international law is being violated

By Amy Tiebel

July 23, 2012
10:10 pm

Jordan tightens security on Syrian border

‘It is our duty to protect citizens, but at the same time, we have to open our doors to our Syrian brothers,’ says King Abdullah

June 5, 2012
1:50 pm

UNRWA: America’s original sin

The Kirk amendment avoids the root of the problem: By fueling Palestinian refugee pipe dreams, the US is actively sabotaging the peace process

By Ted Belman

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