Refugees

UN refugee agency scales back posts and budget for 2027, documents show

In 2025, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had 16,126 budgeted posts versus 12,051 this year and 8,540 in 2027, the budget documents showed.

AUGUST 28, 2026|ByREUTERS

A closed registration centre of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the Zero Point Islam Qala border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran, in Herat province, on November 5, 2025.

Endalkew Yemani Tesma, shown here in Jerusalem on Aug. 14, 2023, faces the possibility of deportation.

Ethiopian asylum seekers in Israel face deportation after years without permanent status

Asked whether any of this had left him bitter toward Israel, one Ethiopian asylum seeker, who asked not to be named for fear of deportation, rejected the premise. “I don’t hate,” he said.

AUGUST 28, 2026|ByTHEIA CHATELLE/JTA

Ramin Parsa holds his child in their family home in Israel

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."

JULY 30, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

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.

JULY 21, 2026|ByREUTERS

How closing Arab refugee camps would undercut the global intifada - opinion

Solving the broader refugee problem would pave the way for more countries to make peace with Israel and would expand the accords more rapidly.

JUNE 2, 2025ByDANIEL FREEDMAN

A PALESTINIAN PUSHES a hand truck with food supplies inside a United Nations food distribution center in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, last month.

Take back your tired, your poor - opinion

The United States is again denying asylum to refugees and sending them back to places where they face persecution, economic hardship, discrimination, and even death.

MAY 29, 2025ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

THE STATUE of Liberty in New York Harbor: The tired, the poor, the ‘huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ are no longer welcome here, except for a handful of preferred white people, the writer argues.

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

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