The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestine War and subsequent conflicts,as well as their descendants,including legally adopted children. As of 2019,more than 5.6 million Palestinians are registered with UNRWA as refugees.
Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty,the royal family of Jordan since 1921,Hussein was a 40th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad.
The Palestinian territories are the two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967,namely the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has referred to the West Bank,including East Jerusalem,as "the Occupied Palestinian Territory",and this term was used as the legal definition by the ICJ in its advisory opinion of July 2004. The term occupied Palestinian territory was used by the United Nations and other international organizations between October 1999 and December 2012 to refer to areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority,but from 2012,when Palestine was admitted as one of its non-member observer states,the United Nations started using exclusively the name State of Palestine. The European Union (EU) also uses the term "occupied Palestinian territory". The government of Israel and its supporters use the label "disputed territories" instead.
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978,following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David,the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House and were witnessed by President Jimmy Carter. The second of these frameworks led directly to the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty. Due to the agreement,Sadat and Begin received the shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. The first framework,which dealt with the Palestinian territories,was written without participation of the Palestinians and was condemned by the United Nations.
Ahmad al-Shukeiri was a Palestinian political leader and the first Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization,serving from 1964 to 1967.
Amman New Camp or Al-Wehdat camp,locally known as Al-Wihdat,which is located in the Hay Al Awdah neighbourhood,in southeast Amman,the capital city of Jordan occupies a 0.48 km2 (0.19 sq mi),Of the ten recognized Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan,Al-Wehdat is the second largest,with a population of roughly 57,000 registered refugees,which includes 8,400 students. The United Nation body responsible for administrating Palestinian refugee camps,is the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Issues relating to the State of Israel and aspects of the Arab–Israeli conflict and more recently the Iran–Israel conflict occupy repeated annual debate times,resolutions and resources at the United Nations. Since its founding in 1948,the United Nations Security Council,has adopted 79 resolutions directly related to the Arab–Israeli conflict as of January 2010.
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 is a resolution adopted near the end of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. The Resolution defines principles for reaching a final settlement and returning Palestine refugees to their homes. Article 11 of the resolution resolves that
refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date,and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which,under principles of international law or equity,should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.
The 1949 Armistice Agreements,which ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War by delineating the Green Line as the legal boundary between Israel and the Arab countries,left the Kingdom of Egypt in control of a small swath of territory that it had captured and occupied in the former British Mandate for Palestine:the Gaza Strip. This period saw the creation of the All-Palestine Government within the All-Palestine Protectorate,an Egyptian client state that would last until 1959,a year after the Republic of Egypt and the Second Syrian Republic merged to form a single sovereign state known as the United Arab Republic. The Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip was briefly subsumed by Israel during the 1956 Suez Crisis and ended entirely during the 1967 Arab–Israeli War,after which the Israeli Military Governorate was established in the territory and succeeded by the Israeli Civil Administration in 1981;the direct Israeli presence in the Gaza Strip ended with the 2005 disengagement plan.
The International law bearing on issues of Arab–Israeli conflict,which became a major arena of regional and international tension since the birth of Israel in 1948,resulting in several disputes between a number of Arab countries and Israel.
Issues relating to the State of Palestine and aspects of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict occupy continuous debates,resolutions,and resources at the United Nations. Since its founding in 1948,the United Nations Security Council,as of January 2010,has adopted 79 resolutions directly related to the Arab–Israeli conflict.
The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nations. It is tasked with raising public awareness and support of the work of the United Nations through strategic communications campaigns,media and relationships with civil society groups.
Elaine Valdov is President and Founder of The International Institute for a Culture of Peace As a peace and human rights activist and conflict resolution specialist,Valdov lectures internationally and is best known for her work in championing and building initiatives worldwide,in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and UNESCO’s International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. She has chaired task forces for women empowerment and gender equality;and founded “Yoga Peace Ambassadors”to teach MDG humanitarian service options in Yoga Ashrams worldwide.
Egypt–Palestine relations are the bilateral relations between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Palestine. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause and he favored self-determination for the Palestinians. Although the Egyptian government has maintained a good relationship with Israel since the Camp David Accords,most Egyptians strongly resent Israel,and disapprove of the close relationship between the Israeli and Egyptian governments.
The Sixty-sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 13 September 2011 at 15:00 and was presided over by former Qatari permanent representative to the UN Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser. The session ended on 18 September as al-Nasser symbolically passed the gavel to the president of the next session,Vuk Jeremic.
Egypt–Syria relations refers to the bilateral relations between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Syrian Arab Republic. Egypt has an embassy in Damascus. Syria has an embassy in Cairo. Both countries are members of the Arab League.
The All-Palestine Government was established on 22 September 1948,during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,to govern the Egyptian-controlled territory in Gaza,which Egypt had on the same day declared as the All-Palestine Protectorate. It was confirmed by the Arab League and recognised by six of the then seven Arab League members,with Transjordan being the exception. Though it claimed jurisdiction over the whole of the former Mandatory Palestine,its effective jurisdiction was limited to the All-Palestine Protectorate,which came to be called the Gaza Strip. The President of the protectorate was Hajj Amin al-Husseini,former chairman of the Arab Higher Committee,and the Prime Minister was Ahmed Hilmi Pasha. The legislative body was the All-Palestine National Council.
Nasser Bourita is a Moroccan diplomat serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs,African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates since 5 April 2017.
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger is a Swiss-Croatian diplomat. Since October 2022,she has served as the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
