In addition, the United States drops food packages on refugee areas from planes flying above ground fire.

In practice, China has closed the refugee areas to the United Nations.

Still, he's grateful to be placed in charge of a refugee area on the West Bank.

With the rise of the Palestinian resistance movement following the 1967 war, refugee areas asserted their independence from the Lebanese state.

Clinton had urged Pakistani-American doctors, especially women, to volunteer in the refugee areas.

By nightfall, five refugee areas, comprising about 200,000 people, were put under curfew.

Even before the expulsions, the death rate had been rising, especially in Gaza's hardscrabble refugee areas and towns.

Vashon security sent regular patrols through refugee areas.

The agency has launched a campaign to clear out the squalid refugee area, encouraging hundreds of displaced people to return to their homes.

Resrictions remain in force at most refugee areas.