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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Zaatari refugee camp

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks in the main market road during his visit to the Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, June 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
June 23, 2018, 12:52 am
Corbyn on trip to Jordan: Labour government would quickly recognize Palestine
Ahead of visit to Palestinian refugee camp, Israel-bashing British opposition leader slams Trump moves on Jerusalem as a ‘catastrophic mistake’
By AP and ToI Staff
A general view shows part of a new 15 million euro ($17 million) solar plant during its official inauguration at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on November 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)
November 13, 2017, 11:53 pm
Jordan opens world’s largest solar park at refugee camp
UN official says panels will allow for resources to be used on other services at Zaatari, which houses 80,000 refugees
By AFP
File: Syrian children play under the heat of the midday sun in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, near the Syrian border, on April 17, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
July 15, 2016, 12:36 am
New power network lights Jordan’s largest refugee camp
Some 80,000 Syrians fleeing their country’s bloodshed gain access to nine hours of electricity each day
By AP
A worker from India arranges steel tubes at a factory in the Muwaqer Industrial Estate, in northern Jordan, February 25, 2016. (AP/Raad Adayleh)
March 4, 2016, 9:24 am
In new trade deal, Jordan to employ 200,000 Syrian refugees
In exchange, Amman to gain access to European markets, be eligible for development grants; plan could take years to implement
By Karin Laub and KHETAM MALKAWI
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
Republican presidential candidates (from left) Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson talk during a break during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 30, 2015, 2:12 am
For GOP underdogs, foreign policy offers new promise
With concerns about the Islamic State on the rise, frontrunners Trump and Carson struggle as Republican hawks try to surge
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Dr. Georgette Bennett, head of the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees, with a family in Jordan's Za'arati refugee camp in February 2015. (courtesy)
September 8, 2015, 9:27 pm
With world watching refugees, Jewish coalition sees chance to boost aid
Long hampered by lack of funds, international Jewish relief organizations hope to draw empathy — and donations — for new programs in Europe
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Britain's Prince Charles, left, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, February 8, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Mazrawi, Pool)
February 8, 2015, 5:46 pm
Prince Charles says he fears for Christians in Middle East
Heir to British throne meets with refugees in Jordan; UK pledges $150 million for displaced Syrians
By Jill Lawless
Singer and entertainer Janet Jackson via Shutterstock
December 21, 2014, 9:10 pm
Janet Jackson visits West Bank kids
Pop singer tours Palestinian communities as ambassador for United Nation’s Children’s Fund
By Stuart Winer
File: Syrian children play under the heat of the midday sun in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, near the Syrian border, on April 17, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 29, 2014, 10:23 am
UN says Syria refugees top 3 million mark
One of every eight civilians flee across border as deadly civil war continues to tear embattled country apart
By John Heilprin
Syrian refugees walks past a makeshift market in the Zaatari refugee camp, on April 15, 2014. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
April 18, 2014, 8:00 am
Miserable Syrians in Jordan say they’d rather go home
Despair drives 100 residents of Zaatari refugee camp to return to war-torn Syria each day rather than tolerate poor conditions
By AFP
An aerial view of the Zaatari refugee camp, July 18, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Mandel Ngan/File)
April 6, 2014, 8:37 pm
UN alarmed by deadly Syrian protest in Jordan camp
Violent demonstration in Zaatari refugee camp claims one life, injures dozens
By OMAR AKOUR
A Syrian refugee stands on top of a water tank at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian-Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan, in January 2013 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
April 6, 2014, 3:05 am
Jordanian police, Syrian refugees hurt in camp riots
Amman denies reports that a woman was killed in the clashes
By AFP
Syrian refugee Majd Ammari, 13, performs the role of King Lear during a rehearsal at the sprawling Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian desert near the border with Syria, March 8, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
March 25, 2014, 6:26 am
Young Syrians bring Lear to life at a refugee camp
A Syrian actor-turned-director introduces Shakespeare, and joy, to the lives of children in the middle of the Jordanian desert
By Kamal Taha
Jordanian volunteer teacher Mohammed Marahleh holds a physical education class for Syrian refugees in Northern Shuneh area of Jordan Valley, north of Amman, Jordan in February 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
February 22, 2014, 8:07 pm
Syrians in remote tented settlement feel abandoned
1,200 families, among the 1.2 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, are living in squalid, impromptu communities in the Jordan Valley
By Jamal Halaby
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