Exodus 1948 © Photographer unknown / UN Archives

Palestine refugees initially displaced to Beach Camp in Gaza board boats in search of a better life in Lebanon or Egypt, 1949. © Hrant Nakashian / UNRWA Archives

The first UNRWA schools were set up in tents in Jericho. UNRWA started out with 93 schools and more than 35,000 pupils in 1950, 1954. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Young women play basketball at the Women’s Activity Centre in Kalandia, West Bank.Undated, 1950s. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

A science lesson at the Women’s Training Centre in Ramallah, West Bank, where thousands of girls have been trained in teaching and other professions, Undated. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Children at Khan Younis camp, Gaza. The tents in this camp had just been replaced by cement block houses. 1955. © Jack Madvo / UNRWA Archives

Israeli air raids destroyed the Palestine refugee camp of Nabatiyeh in Lebanon in 1974.© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

A Palestine refugee girl in Lebanon looks through the ruins of a house. Undated.© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

A Belgian doctor at the Wadi Dleil emergency camp in Jordan. 1967.© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Girls playing in Qabr Essit camp, Syria. 1972.© Munir Nasr / UNRWA Archives

Children at an UNRWA facility in Jordan for people with disabilities, 1980.© George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

A school at the Damia emergency camp in Jordan, 1967.© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Palestine refugees working in Lebanon. Undated.© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

A mother cries in front of destroyed buildings in El Buss camp, Tyre, Lebanon. Thousandswere displaced after the Israeli invasion in June 1982, 1982. © George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

Shatila camp, Beirut, Lebanon on 20 September 1982. Several hundred Palestine refugeesand other civilians were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila districts of south Beirut byIsraeli forces between 16 and 18 September, 1982. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Rashidieh camp near Tyre, Lebanon, was heavily damaged during the Israeli invasion, 1982.© George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

This man lost his entire family in the 1982 massacre at Shatila camp, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982. © Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

An UNRWA truck is unable to deliver food and medical supplies to refugees in a Beirut camp.1986. © H. Haider / UNRWA Archives

An UNRWA girls school in Qabr Essit camp, Damascus, Syria, 1983.© Munir Nasr / UNRWA Archives

Mothers and their babies at an UNRWA maternal and child health clinic in Gaza City, 1985.© Munir Nasr / UNRWA Archives

An UNRWA ration distribution point in Beach camp, Gaza, 1989.© Munir Nasr / UNRWA Archives

Children play in Rafah camp, Gaza, 1995. © George Nehmeh / UNRWA Archives

Praying in Baqa’a, Jordan, 1989.© Munir Nasr / UNRWA Archives

House demolition during the second intifada, Gaza, 2001.© Khalil Hamra / UNRWA Archives

Women in a sewing workshop supported by the UNRWA microfinance programme, WestBank., 2005. ©Steve Sabella / UNRWA Archives

Boy at a UNRWA health centre in Yarmouk, Syria, 1999.© Mia Gröndahl / UNRWA Archives

Girl petting her rabbit at Beddawi camp, Lebanon, 1999.© Mia Gröndahl / UNRWA Archives

Poverty in Beddawi camp, Lebanon, 1999.© Mia Gröndahl / UNRWA Archives

The devastated Nahr el-Bared camp, Lebanon, 2009.© Photographer unknown / UNRWA Archives

Phosphorous bombs hit UNRWA premises in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, 2009.Courtesy of © AFP Photo

UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon visits Gaza, 2009.© Eskinder Debebe / UN Photo

Children on their way to school in Gaza., 2012.© Shareef Sarhan / UNRWA Archives

Children taking an outdoor bath in Gaza, 2010.© Eman Mohammed / UNRWA Archives

Gaza., 2010.© Eman Mohammed / UNRWA Archives

Physical education classes as part of gender project activities in Gaza City, 2011.© Eman Mohammed / UNRWA Archives

Children study in the evening by candlelight in Gaza because of a lack of electricity. 2012.© Shareef Sarhan / UNRWA Archives

UNRWA Goodwill Ambassador Mohammed Assaf in a classroom in al-Amari in the WestBank., 2013. © Alaa Ghosheh / UNRWA Archives

A woman from a Bedouin community stands in the midst of the ruins of her house in Jabaa,West Bank, 2011. © Alaa Ghosheh / UNRWA Archives

Mechanics at Wadi Seer Training Centre, Jordan, 2013.© Alaa Ghosheh / UNRWA Archives

Aya, second from right, lost her leg after a mortar exploded while she was on her way backfrom school in Damascus, Syria., 2013. © Carol Alfarah / UNRWA Archives