UNRWA founded, 1949   [59 x 85 cm]

Source of image: https://tinyurl.com/3htl75um
Sketch: Shaymaa Abu-Hasanain [Gaza], Gaza, Palestine
Embroidery: Karema Nasser [Barbara], Gaza, Palestine

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) was established in 1949.  The following year, it began providing nutritional, health, and educational services to about 750,000 Palestine refugees displaced as a result of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.  Today, due to lack of international support, UNRWA struggles, to provide services to over 5 million Palestinian refugees.

Era: Sumud - Steadfastness (1948 onwards)

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