The UN Relief and Works Agency says that 480 registered Palestinians have fled Syria to the neighboring Jordan since the rise of the year-long popular uprising against the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad

Thousands of Palestinians rallied throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip and in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, marking the 64th anniversary of Nakba day or catastrophe and calling for the right of return for Palestinians who were forced to leave their homes in 1948

Demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza in support of about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike are escalating amid efforts by Egyptian mediators to broker a deal to avoid protests spiralling out of control if a detainee dies.

The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, expressed his grave concern about the current medical and health conditions of the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons.