Editing UNRWA (section)

===Definition of refugee ===
UNRWA has developed its own working definition of "[[refugee]]" to allow it to provide [[humanitarian assistance]]. Its definition does not cover final status.<ref name="f">{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/unrwa/overview/qa.html#c|title=UNRWA's Frequently Asked Questions|publisher=United Nations|access-date=2007-11-20|archive-date=11 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911100145/http://www.un.org/unrwa/overview/qa.html#c|url-status=live}}</ref>

<blockquote>[[Palestinian refugees|Palestine refugees]] are "persons whose regular place of residence was [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict."</blockquote>

The [[Six-Day War]] of 1967 generated a new wave of Palestinian refugees who could not be included in the original UNRWA definition. Since 1991, the UN General Assembly has adopted an annual resolution allowing the 1967 refugees within the UNRWA mandate. UNRWA's "mandate" is not a single document but the sum of all relevant resolutions and requests of the General Assembly. While focused on Palestine refugees, it also extends to persons displaced by "the 1967 and subsequent hostilities" and occasionally to a broader cross-section of the local community. Several categories of persons have long been registered as eligible to receive UNRWA services although not "Palestine refugees".<ref>{{cite journal|title= The Mandate of UNRWA at Sixty |last=Batholomeusz|first=Lance|year=2010|journal=Refugee Survey Quarterly|volume=28|issue=2–3|pages=452–474|doi=10.1093/rsq/hdp033|s2cid=145411639}}</ref> The descendants of Palestine refugee males, including adopted children, are also eligible for registration as refugees.