UNRWA continues to support people in #Gaza with essential health services.
Over 74,000 medical consultations, including physiotherapy, have been provided by UNRWA health personnel across the Gaza Strip, from 23 February to 1 March 2026.
#UNRWAworks
Our latest on the situation in 📍#Lebanon:
🔹By 6 March, an estimated 1,300 displaced people had been registered in UNRWA shelters.
🔹UNRWA is working with a range of partner organisations in its emergency shelters to provide aid supplies and a full range of services.
Full report: buff.ly/AFlOioh
Across shelters in the #Gaza Strip, UNRWA environmental health teams continue hygiene awareness sessions and pesticide spraying campaigns.
These efforts help reduce health risks and support safer living conditions for displaced families.
#UNRWAworks
“Yet again, spiraling violence across the region is forcing thousands to flee their homes in Southern Lebanon.”
Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
Thousands of people are being displaced in #Lebanon as violence spirals.
UNRWA reopened emergency shelters there, where around 1,300 people have found a haven.
#UNRWAworks
🔹 In #Gaza, violence continues despite the ceasefire; 618 Palestinians have reportedly been killed since the ceasefire.
🔹 Movement restrictions have intensified across the occupied #WestBank, including East Jerusalem.
Latest update: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...
“The Middle East has become the deadliest place in the world:
- to be a medical worker
- to be a humanitarian
- to be a UN team member
- to be a journalist
And one of the deadliest to be a civilian.”
– UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
Despite the sharp escalation in #Lebanon, UNRWA is managing to keep providing essential services to #Palestine Refugees - from getting medication to patients with chronic diseases to collecting garbage in camps.
#UNRWAworks
Since 2 March 2025, UNRWA’s aid supplies for #Gaza have been blocked by the Israeli authorities.
Food, medicines & other essentials for hundreds of thousands of people remain in UNRWA warehouses, ready to enter — while access stays severely restricted.
#UNRWAworks — we must be allowed to scale up.
Suleiman is just two years old.
Thanks to UNRWA, he has access to physiotherapy care in #Gaza to support his development.
Since Oct 2023, UNRWA has delivered over 172,000 physiotherapy sessions, reaching nearly 24,000 people — including more than 4,300 with war-related injuries.
#UNRWAworks
“We draw, we shape the clay, we colour it, we laugh. Those are the best moments of my day,” says Rital, displaced in #Gaza.
With support from @euinemergencies.ec.europa.eu, #UNRWAworks to provide some relief to children through art-based self-expression.
Full story: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/fea...
“In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, access to education is under attack in plain sight.
[...]
UNRWA has made access to education for all Palestine Refugees a priority. To succeed, we count on all our partners and donors.”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
"A new chokehold on #Gaza.
Once again, Israel is renewing its ban on supplies entering Gaza."
Read the full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
This Ramadan, your support helps UNRWA provide emergency cash assistance, healthcare, and other essentials for struggling families.
Use our trusted Zakat Calculator and give with confidence.
Calculate your Zakat: 🔗 link in bio
In #Gaza, a UNRWA centre for visually impaired students has reopened after months without school.
56 students are now back in the classroom. Teachers are continuing lessons with adapted materials, including repaired Braille machines.
Learning continues, even in challenging conditions.
#UNRWAworks
“There are concerns over ethnic cleansing in both #Gaza and the #WestBank” - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
UNRWA keeps supporting hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in Gaza & the West Bank, but the humanitarian situation is dire.
➡️ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Amid severe access restriction and heightened insecurity, UNRWA teams continue providing essential services to #Palestine Refugees, including health care in UNRWA’s health centres and emergency health points across the occupied #WestBank.
#UNRWAworks
UNRWA supports children, women and men with the basic services that they need. Day in, day out.
#Palestine Refugees across the region rely on UNRWA for their healthcare, education, public sanitation, microfinance and more. For most of them, there are few or no alternatives.
#UNRWAworks.
Susan Sarandon joins UNRWA to remind the world that, amid devastation in #Gaza, UNRWA continues its work: keeping clinics open, sustaining shelters, and delivering emergency aid and education to thousands.
Together, we are UNRWA.
Donate now at: donate.unrwa.org/help
“We are not asking for much,” says Ziad, who lives with his family in an UNRWA school-turned shelter.
Across #Gaza, UNRWA facilities continue to serve as collective emergency shelters for thousands of internally displaced people, despite being severely damaged in the war.
With UNRWA, 100% of your Zakat goes directly to eligible #Palestine Refugees, with no deductions, no overhead costs.
Your support helps families to cover daily essentials.
Calculate your Zakat and give today: 🔗 Link in bio
10 years apart: Mohamed aged 14 with his UNRWA physics teacher, and now aged 24 at his graduation from the UNRWA Digital Hub in #Lebanon.
Despite the challenges, UNRWA keeps #Palestine Refugees learning.
Now like then, #UNRWAworks
In #Gaza, forced displacement & aid restrictions have led to overcrowding, with shelters deteriorating and sanitation inadequate, increasing the spread of illnesses.
#UNRWAworks to help people through health & sanitation services. But we need to be allowed to do more to respond to the immense need.
“Our future depends on our joint commitment to defend every person’s rights, every time, everywhere,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk tells the Human Rights Council.
Full statement: www.ohchr.org/en/statement...
UNRWA supports children, women and men with the basic services that they need. Day in, day out.
#Palestine Refugees across the region rely on UNRWA for their healthcare, education, public sanitation, microfinance and more. For most of them, there are few or no alternatives.
#UNRWAworks.
In #Gaza City, the UNRWA Sulafa Embroidery Centre has reopened after months of suspension due to the war.
For over 70 years, Sulafa has supported women artisans to generate income. Traditional embroidery continues to provide dignified livelihoods and pass on skills across generations.
#UNRWAworks
🔹OHCHR has raised the alarm over what it calls possible ethnic cleansing by Israeli authorities in #Gaza and the occupied #WestBank, citing intensified violence, destruction, and forcible transfers aimed at the permanent displacement of Palestinians.
Our latest update: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...
“Besides having more food available in #Gaza, very little else has come in based on what is really needed,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini tells @aljazeera.com
UNRWA must be allowed to work at scale to meet the need of the people in Gaza. #UNRWAworks
Protecting civilians and humanitarian operations is essential to ensure assistance can be delivered safely and at scale.
Across the region, UNRWA continues to provide services to #Palestine Refugees in line with its mandate.
#UNRWAworks
“Human rights are not a slogan for good times. They are a duty at all times.
And so we must stand up for them – and even when it is difficult, inconvenient, or costly.
Especially then,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres tells the Human Rights Council.
Full remarks: www.un.org/sg/en/conten...
