The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, was created by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly to give relief to the Palestinians who had been displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It began operations a few months later, intended as a temporary body. UNRWA provides education, health care, relief and social services to registered Palestinian refugees and their descendants in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It is financed mainly by voluntary contributions. The agency has often been caught in political disputes, with Israel and some donor states criticizing its operations, and in 2024 accusations about some of its staff led several donors to suspend funding.
Before and after
- 8 October 1949Birth of Sigourney Weaver
- 21 October 1949Birth of Benjamin Netanyahu
- 1 December 1949Birth of Pablo Escobar
- from 6 December 1949 to 1 January 1958La Violencia
- 8 December 1949Founding of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- 21 December 1949Birth of Thomas Sankara
- 25 December 1949Birth of Nawaz Sharif
- 26 December 1949Birth of José Ramos-Horta
- 1950Discovery of the Ishango bone
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- 16 November 1945Founding of UNESCO
- 7 April 1948Founding of World Health Organization
- 1950Origins of Formula One
- 1959HIV/AIDS
- 9 September 1999Founding of African Union
- from 15 November 2019 to 5 May 2023COVID-19 pandemic
The era
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