Refugees

Iranian Christian dissident denied right to stay in Israel with his wife, child - interview

"Everything inside me began to change. I started thinking: maybe the people they hung from cranes were innocent too, like us. Maybe the people whose hands they cut off were also innocent."

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Ramin Parsa holds his child in their family home in Israel
Illustrative: People gather around a boat carrying newly-arrived Rohingya refugees, after authorities prevented the refugees from disembarking and ordered them to remain on board the vessel, at Leuge Beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on January 29, 2025.

At least 144 refugees dead or missing off coast of Mauritania, UN agency says

The toll comes after three rescue operations in Mauritania between July 14-18, the UN agency said, calling for more access to education and labor opportunities to create sea crossing alternatives.

|ByREUTERS
US President Donald Trump gestures as he disembarks the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One, while he arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, US, July 17, 2026.

Diplomatic efforts seek to avert Trump split with UN refugee agency, sources say

The sources said that the agency had informed supporters that it could be placed on a US blacklist, ending funding, and that Washington could also withdraw from its governing Executive Committee.

|ByREUTERS
People gather around a boat carrying newly-arrived Rohingya refugees, after authorities prevented the refugees from disembarking and ordered them to remain on board the vessel.

More than 500 feared dead after boats carrying refugees sink off Myanmar coast, UN says

The two vessels left Myanmar at the end of June, carrying passengers primarily from the Rohingya Muslim minority, in an effort to reach Malaysia, Indonesia, or Thailand.

|ByREUTERS

Disarming Palestinian factions top of Mahmoud Abbas's agenda on Lebanon trip - report

2025 will be the year in which all weapons in Lebanon are brought under state authority, President Aoun told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

MAY 21, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A VIEW of the entrance to the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where fighting first broke out in July.

Pro-Palestinian shift: Expanding the Trump plan to 1948 refugees - opinion

Thanks to UNWRA, many descendants of Palestinians displaced in 1948 are still refugees throughout the Middle East.

MAY 6, 2025ByGOL KALEV
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas holds up maps of the Palestinian compromise, addressing the UN Security Council, in 2020. But after the 1947 Partition Plan, local Arab leaders encouraged Palestinian Arabs to flee, says the writer.

United Nations: The tragedy in Sudan must end ‘World’s largest humanitarian crisis’ - opinion

The UK, France, Germany, and the UN must lead to end the war in Sudan by taking and enforcing the following measures.

APRIL 27, 2025ByALON BEN-MEIR
DISPLACED PEOPLE ride on an animal-drawn cart, following Rapid Support Forces attacks on the Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, earlier this month. Zamzam, Sudan’s largest refugee camp, was bombarded by the RSF for months, with at least 300 killed between Zamzam an

Asylum seeker to launch podcast to explore African refugee experiences in Israel and beyond

The podcast, “Behind the Silence of Africa,” will highlight stories of Israel’s asylum seekers and their origins, as well as their community’s collective struggle.

APRIL 9, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
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Israel appoints director to oversee 'voluntary emigration' of Palestinians from Gaza

Blitstein, currently Defense Ministry deputy director-general, previously served as director-general of the foreign ministry and energy ministry, respectively, among other senior positions.

MARCH 30, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Kobi Blitstein, then-director general of the Ministry of Energy against backdrop of Gaza (illustration).

Rumors or reality? Egypt’s potential role in hosting Gazans - analysis

Egypt is one place where Gazans can move on land. Not only is there a border between Egypt and Gaza, but Egypt controlled Gaza from 1948 to 1967 and thus has a historic role in Gaza.

MARCH 24, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, during the emergency Arab summit organised by Egypt, in Cairo, March 4, 2025.

Palestinians should be resettled in Arab countries that expelled their Jews - opinion

Israel integrated Jews forced to join them from those Arab counties. If justice is to be done, those Palestinians should be relocated out of their refugee camps and resettled in those same countries.

MARCH 22, 2025ByWALTER E. BLOCK
A flight from Aden, Yemen, to the newly formed State of Israel during Operation Magic Carpet, which brought thousands of Yemeni Jews to the Holy Land (1949-1950).

Trump should reject the long-accepted Palestinian narrative on indigeneity, refugeehood - opinion

After Trump’s bombshell remark concerning Gaza’s future, the next logical step for President Trump is to confront the half-truths and outright falsehoods of the Palestinian narrative.

MARCH 22, 2025ByERIC R. MANDEL
An illustrative image of US President Donald Trump superimposed over displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Asylum-seeking, refugee women in Israel endure higher poverty rates and exploitation - report

The report states that among asylum-seeking and refugee women, the poverty rate is twice that of men, reaching 64% compared to 33% for men.

MARCH 20, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
SOME OF THE thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who are living in Tel Aviv.

Millionaire refugees: The charged debate over UNRWA’s defining policy and its future

UNRWA AFFAIRS: Who qualifies as a Palestinian refugee? And should this status be inherited indefinitely – even by millionaires?

MARCH 13, 2025ByBATYA LEVINTHAL
TODAY, UNRWA’S registry lists over six million refugees. Here, a Palestinian woman walks past a wall bearing the agency’s logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in southern Gaza.