CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA, http://www.unrwa.org) has announced an ambitious three-year program to provide a laptop loaded with the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform to one-half million Palestine refugee children in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. "Empowering the next generation through knowledge and learning is central to UNRWA's education projects.

Three U.N. agencies reported that the percentage of Palestinians not getting enough to eat has grown 4 percent since 2006. The report was released Friday by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. World Food Program and the U.N.

The Gaza Strip is facing serious power outages if fuel is not allowed into the region soon, U.N. official in New York said Tuesday.

Text of report in English by privately-owned Jorda

U.S. President George Bush equated Jewish immigration to Israel following its establishment in 1948 with the current plight of Palestinian refugees.