The Long Journey - English Captions

Exodus 1948 © Photographer unknown / UN Archives

Palestine refugees initially displaced to Beach Camp in Gaza board boats in search of a better life in

Lebanon or Egypt, 1949. © Hrant Nakashian / UNRWA Archives

The first UNRWA schools were set up in tents in Jericho. UNRWA started out with 93 schools and more

than 35,000 pupils in 1950, 1954. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Young women play basketball at the Women’s Activity Centre in Kalandia, West Bank.

Undated, 1950s. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

A science lesson at the Women’s Training Centre in Ramallah, West Bank, where thousands of girls have

been trained in teaching and other professions, Undated. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Children at Khan Younis camp, Gaza. The tents in this camp had just been replaced by cement block

houses. 1955. © Jack Madvo / UNRWA Archives

Israeli air raids destroyed the Palestine refugee camp of Nabatiyeh in Lebanon in 1974.

© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

A Palestine refugee girl in Lebanon looks through the ruins of a house. Undated.


A Belgian doctor at the Wadi Dleil emergency camp in Jordan. 1967.


Girls playing in Qabr Essit camp, Syria. 1972.

© Munir Nasr / UNRWA Archives

Children at an UNRWA facility in Jordan for people with disabilities, 1980.

© George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

A school at the Damia emergency camp in Jordan, 1967.


Palestine refugees working in Lebanon. Undated.


A mother cries in front of destroyed buildings in El Buss camp, Tyre, Lebanon. Thousands

were displaced after the Israeli invasion in June 1982, 1982. © George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

Shatila camp, Beirut, Lebanon on 20 September 1982. Several hundred Palestine refugees

and other civilians were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila districts of south Beirut by

Israeli forces between 16 and 18 September, 1982. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Rashidieh camp near Tyre, Lebanon, was heavily damaged during the Israeli invasion, 1982.

© George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

This man lost his entire family in the 1982 massacre at Shatila camp, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982.


An UNRWA truck is unable to deliver food and medical supplies to refugees in a Beirut camp.

1986. © H. Haider / UNRWA Archives

An UNRWA girls school in Qabr Essit camp, Damascus, Syria, 1983.


Mothers and their babies at an UNRWA maternal and child health clinic in Gaza City, 1985.


An UNRWA ration distribution point in Beach camp, Gaza, 1989.


Children play in Rafah camp, Gaza, 1995. © George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

Praying in Baqa’a, Jordan, 1989.


House demolition during the second intifada, Gaza, 2001.

© Khalil Hamra / UNRWA Archives

Women in a sewing workshop supported by the UNRWA microfinance programme, West

Bank., 2005. ©Steve Sabella / UNRWA Archives

Boy at a UNRWA health centre in Yarmouk, Syria, 1999.

© Mia Gröndahl / UNRWA Archives

Girl petting her rabbit at Beddawi camp, Lebanon, 1999.


Poverty in Beddawi camp, Lebanon, 1999.


The devastated Nahr el-Bared camp, Lebanon, 2009.


Phosphorous bombs hit UNRWA premises in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, 2009.

Courtesy of © AFP Photo

UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon visits Gaza, 2009.

© Eskinder Debebe / UN Photo

Children on their way to school in Gaza., 2012.

© Shareef Sarhan / UNRWA Archives

Children taking an outdoor bath in Gaza, 2010.

© Eman Mohammed / UNRWA Archives

Gaza., 2010.


Physical education classes as part of gender project activities in Gaza City, 2011.


Children study in the evening by candlelight in Gaza because of a lack of electricity. 2012.

© Shareef Sarhan / UNRWA Archives

UNRWA Goodwill Ambassador Mohammed Assaf in a classroom in al-Amari in the West

Bank., 2013. © Alaa Ghosheh / UNRWA Archives

A woman from a Bedouin community stands in the midst of the ruins of her house in Jabaa,

West Bank, 2011. © Alaa Ghosheh / UNRWA Archives

Mechanics at Wadi Seer Training Centre, Jordan, 2013.

© Alaa Ghosheh / UNRWA Archives

Aya, second from right, lost her leg after a mortar exploded while she was on her way back

from school in Damascus, Syria., 2013. © Carol Alfarah / UNRWA Archives

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