Women-refugees-pull-their-families-out-of-poverty“I heard about UNRWA loans from my neighbour. She told me that I can take a loan to start my own business”, explains Amneh Abu Salim. Amneh, better known as Um Hussein, is a 60 year old mother of 12 living in Baqa’a camp in Jordan. The advice given by her neighbour was life-changing; a loan from UNRWA has helped Em Hussein to build a business of her own.

palestinian_childAn Israeli court Wednesday forced a Palestinian family living in Ras al-Amud area in East Jerusalem to evacuate part of their house and give it to Jewish settlers.

palestinian-demonstrators-in-ramallah-calling-for-political-unity-between-gazas-hamas-rulers-and-the-fatah-dominated-palestinian-authority-which-rules-from-ramallah-in-the-west-bank
Over 1.500 Palestinians took to the streets of Nablus on Tuesday urging for national unity and an end of internal division, in tandem with thousands of pro-unity protesters in the West Bank and Gaza.

angerIsraeli settlers observed their own 'day of rage' last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement structure by the Israeli authoritieS

gazaThe next generation in the Gaza Strip may be less educated, less professional and perhaps more radical because an Israeli blockade has restricted educational and employment opportunities, say UN and other sources.

ben-whiteBethlehem - PNN – this week at The Bethlehem Bible College the respected journalist and author Ben White gave an incredible talk and opened the floor to questions for at least an hour afterwards, talking at length on subjects drawn from his experience in the West Bank.