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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced today that its schools would open on time for 526,000 Palestinian refugee students but warned that the agency was “by no stretch of the imagination out of the woods.” UNIFEED / FILE

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Outgoing UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said he did not seek a second term after it became “clear” to him that the permanent five members of the Security Council would not support him over his criticism of those countries. UNIFEED / FILE

Important changes to Lebanese regulations over the past year have made it possible to register the births of over 50,000 Syrian refugee children born in Lebanon since the conflict started in 2011. UNHCR

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

A United Nations Spokesperson told journalists that “at least 134 people, including many children, were reportedly killed over the weekend in Idleb, Hama and Aleppo Governorates” in Syria. UNIFEED

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

As Syria long-standing war appears to draw to an end, the UN’s top humanitarian advisor for the country said that diplomacy must play its role to avoid further civilian bloodshed, and that the conflict “must end not in a bloodbath but by agreements.” UNTV CH