Refugees

Iranians arrive in Turkey through border gate as crackdown persists

The US issues a warning for citizens to evacuate Iran as protests intensify, with many Iranians seeking refuge in Turkey, crossing the Kapikoy border gate into Van Province.

People stand at the Kapikoy Border Gate, between Turkey and Iran, in Van province, Turkey, January 14, 2026.
(From L-R) IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Tamir Yadai at a meeting discussing West Bank counterterror, December 31, 2025.

WATCH: Katz urges invasion of West Bank refugee camps as Trump calls for restraint

President of Iraq, Barham Salih, speaks during the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, US September 23, 2021.

United Nations General Assembly elects former Iraqi President to lead UN refugee agency

Asha Kano Kavi, an internally displaced woman from Kadugli, serves wild boiled leaves for food to orphaned children at the Bruam IDP Camp within the Sudan's People Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) controlled area in Tobo County in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan June 22, 2024

Over 1,000 civilians killed, third summarily executed in Sudan's Darfur when RSF seized camp - UN


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.

 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.

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.

 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.

 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.

 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?

 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.

From one war to another: Ukrainian refugees in Israel left without safety net, NGO report says

“The complex situation of refugees highlights the need for broader understanding and support," said ASSAF’s Coordinator of Mapping and Support for Ukrainian Refugees.

 Ukrainian refugees arrive in Israel on February 9, 2023

Lapid's post-war plan leaves Egypt in charge of Gaza for 15 years

'Gaza will be rehabilitated, and conditions for self-governance will be created,' Lapid said.

 Yair Lapid addressing the Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference in Washington, February 25, 2025.

This Jewish humanitarian is connecting refugees to jobs as a win-win for employers and refugees.

Tent Partnership for Refugees connects displaced people with major employers, helping them rebuild their lives through job opportunities worldwide.

 Tent CEO Gideon Maltz, winner of the 2025 Charles Bronfman Prize, at his office in New York.

Asylum seekers were victims of Oct. 7. Israel's gov't must do more to support them - opinion

Just as wars and pandemics do not discriminate, so, too, should the state provide support to all those affected by Hamas’s heinous attack and the war that followed.

African asylum seekers line up to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel