The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a relief and human development agency serving the millions of registered Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The Agency was established in 1949 in response to the refugee crisis that resulted from the War of 1948. See UNRWA’s website at http://www.unrwa.org/.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/unrwa