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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Filippo Grandi

Lebanese soldiers cordon off the area at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, September 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
September 29, 2024, 5:15 pm
Lebanese leaders call for ‘unity’ after Nasrallah killing, say they want ceasefire
Christian party advises followers to go ‘radio silent,’ PM Mikati invokes ‘national responsibility,’ and army tells public that division would play into hands of ‘Israeli enemy’
By AFP and Reuters
A screenshot of drone footage released by the IDF on May 14, 2024, shows Palestinian gunmen next to UN vehicles at a UNRWA logistics center in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 24, 2024, 8:55 pm
October 7 victims sue UNRWA for $1 billion, claiming it aided and abetted Hamas
Lawsuit, filed in New York, alleges UN Palestinian aid agency’s compliance in letting terror group use its facilities, says payment of its workers in US dollars helped fund Hamas
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Ukrainian refugees wait for a transport at the central train station in Warsaw, Poland, March 27, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
March 30, 2022, 1:10 pm
UN: Ukrainian refugees top 4 million, surpassing initial prediction
As chief arrives in Lviv, refugee agency says ‘senseless war’ has driven 4,019,287 to flee; another 6.5 million displaced within country with UN feeding 1 million of them
By AFP
Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine wait in line to apply for Polish ID numbers that will entitle them to work, free health care and education, as well as family bonuses, at a special application point at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on March 19, 2022. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
March 21, 2022, 3:02 pm
UN: Nearly 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled country, as world watches in ‘disbelief’
Refugee agency praises neighboring countries’ compassion for ‘extreme plight’ of refugees; most of those who crossed borders to escape have entered Poland
By Robin MILLARD
Refugees fleeing conflict in Ukraine arrive at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, Feb. 28, 2022. (Visar Kryeziu/AP)
February 28, 2022, 2:28 pm
UN: More than half a million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded
Refugee commissioner estimates over a quarter of a million have escaped to Poland, 84,500 are in Hungary, 36,400 in Moldova, over 32,500 in Romania and about 30,000 in Slovakia
By Jamey Keaten
Laborers wait in the street to be hired, in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 12, 2021. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
September 13, 2021, 3:55 pm
UN hosts high-level fundraiser seeking $606 million for Afghanistan
Move comes amid concerns of instability and upended humanitarian efforts after Taliban takeover, compounded by an ongoing drought
By Jamey Keaten
In this March 29, 2021, file photo, a woman holds a baby at Karatepe refugee camp, on the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas, File)
June 18, 2021, 2:39 pm
Global displacement from war, crises doubles in a decade — UN
Figures climbed by 3 million during 2020, to a record-breaking 82 million total; UNHCR chief says factors that caused people to flee continued during pandemic
By Nina Larson
From left: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond; and US Secretary of State John Kerry line up for a press announcement at the nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2, 2015. The sides agreed that month on the framework for the deal they finalized three months later (photo credit: AP/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)
October 4, 2017, 6:12 am
With nuke threat rising, Iran deal trio seen as Nobel favorites
Peace prize to Kerry, Mogherini and Zarif would be natural choice for peace prize, experts say, though many others also in running
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Syrian families at the Zaatari refugee camp, on the Jordanian border with war-ravaged Syria on March 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
March 30, 2017, 4:26 pm
UNHCR: Number of Syrian refugees tops 5 million mark
UN agency lists Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan as countries with highest number of displaced persons from six-year civil war
By AP
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Moallem during a meeting in Beijing on December 24, 2015 (AFP/Wang Zhao)
January 30, 2017, 7:03 pm
No Syria safe zones without our okay, Damascus demands
Moallem says plan favored by Trump administration will violate sovereignty unless coordinated with Assad regime
By Bassam Mroue
Syrian refugees look through the gate of a grocery store at the al-Azraq refugee camp in northeast Jordan, April 14, 2016. (AP Photo/ Sam McNeil)
June 20, 2016, 10:17 am
UN says record 65 million people displaced in 2015
Highest figures since the end of World War II driven by continued conflicts, mainly in the Middle East, Africa
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A refugee girl looks on as refugees and migrants on a rubber boat arrive at the northern Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, in Mytilene, on February 23, 2016. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
February 24, 2016, 8:16 am
Europe rifts widen as migrant arrivals top 110,000 this year
Borders are reintroduced to stem influx, with unprecedented numbers of refugees fleeing war and persecution
By John Hadoulis and Odile DUPERRY
Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, addresses the press in his first visit to Jordan after being appointed to the post, at the Zaatari refugee camp, Mafraq, Jordan, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
January 19, 2016, 2:55 am
UN refugee agency chief seeks mass resettlement of Syrians
Refugee crisis ‘cannot only concern the countries neighboring Syria,’ says new UNHCR head Filippo Grandi
By Karin Laub
Filippo Grandi of Italy speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, September 12, 2012. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)
January 4, 2016, 7:21 pm
Former UNRWA head takes helm of UN refugee agency
Filippo Grandi, who previously led Palestinian aid division, faces ‘unprecedented displacement challenges’ of 60 million people
By AFP
Members of Hamas' security forces standing guard in front of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, September 16, 2013. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/SAID KHATIB)
March 26, 2014, 5:50 pm
Hamas: Gaza-Egypt crossing to reopen
Rafah blockade to be eased for 3 days, starting Saturday, after 50-day closure
By AFP
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