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Dramatic change of situation facing Palestine refugees

Dramatic change of situation facing Palestine refugees

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Five million Palestine refugees have faced a “dramatic change” in their situation over the past year according to the UN agency that supports them, UNWRA.

Upheaval in the Middle East has forced millions of Palestinians to seek more assistance from the UN.

In Syria around 95 per cent of the estimated 430,000 refugees there are dependent on the UN; before the civil war broke out there, they were largely self-sufficient.

Tsigue Shiferaw has been speaking to UNRWA’s Richard Wright

She began by asking him how events in the Middle East are affecting the work of the agency.

Duration: 4'54"

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