matthew reynolds from unra. >> great. thank you. and thank you for inviting unra, which is united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in the near east. now you know why we use the acronym. as the u.n. agency responsible for providing humanitarian and human services for five million palestinian refugees, since beginning operations in may of 1950, five fields of operation, jordan, lebanon, syria, gaza strip, west bank including ease jerusalem. if you were given 30 landmarks of history since 1950 what would you list? korean war and start of the cold war? desegregation in the u.s.? uprisings in '60s in arab world in 2010. end of colonialism and apartheid. rise and fall of dictatorships in africa, asia. berlin wall built up, brought down. destruction of world trade towers in new york. genocides in sam bode yaw. -- cambodia. 65 years after the creation of unrwa we should reflect on three fronts what it means to be the palestine refugees. on being a living reminder of failure to resolve protracted human crisis. palesti

unra is one of the only agencies that is a direct service provider. so unlike other ngos or unicef or others who go out and contract to others, we actually do it ourselves. we have about 30,000 pal palestn refugee staff who are our doctors, teachers and social workers. and we have faced a lot of funding shortages. the world is in some pretty tough economic times, and so are we. the services and the needs of the refugees are growing. we have a crisis in every single field of ours. a few years ago just before the war in syria, there were only about 30,000 palestine refugees of a half a million that required real social services. like in any society, there's about 10% of your population that's disabled or needs assistance. today it's 96% of all those pal palestinians still left in syria, which is about 430,000 of them. so themount of just providing nonfood items, food items and emergency shelter is great. we did face a very important funding crisis, and it brought a lot of challenge to the pal stint refugee -- palestine refugee are community in particula

matthew reynolds. >> thank you and thank you for inviting unra, which is the united nations relief andworks agency for palestinian refugees in the near east. now you know why we use the acronym to participate in today's panel. as the u.n. agent responsible for providing to refugees since beginning our operations in may of 1950 and what remain our five fields of operation, jordan, lebanon, syria, the gaza strip and the west bank, including east jerusalem. if you were given 30 seconds to describe landmarks of human history since 1950, what would you list? the korean war and the start of the cold war? deseg ra desegregation here? say the end of colonialism? the rise and fall of dictatorships in europe, africa? the berlin wall? the destruction of the world trade towers in new york? genocides in rwanda or cambodia? throughout this period, palestine refugees have remained refugees. here are 65 years after the creation, we should reflect on three fronts. what it means to be a palestine refugee today. on the work towards bettering the lives of refugees. the failure to resolve a human crisis. p

unra always provided education. because we did not have enough resources to open the schools this year, there was a great concern that unra would not be opening schools this year. which brought a whole form of credibility and concern in the community. so, again, i would say its is a challenge for all of us as more and more fighting and wars take place to fulfill that. but, again, we do very much appreciate the generosity of the u.s., which is our number one funder. as they have been generous to our sister agency. high commissioner for refugees as well. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. and emad, i've got a global sort of regional question from the audience regarding how the lebanese government and their security forces might deal with the possibility of uprising within the palestinian camps and lebanon. similarly, how the egyptian community and the egyptian government deal with the rafah crossing and the possibility or involvement of others including jordan. >> yeah. well, the palestinian situation and a