Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees The Resolution does not define the ‘refugees’ covered under UNCCP’s mandate, but UNCCP’s 1950 Analysis of paragraph 11 of the General Assembly’s Resolution of 11 December 1948 stated that “the term ‘refugees’ applies to all persons, Arabs, Jews, and others who have been displaced from their homes in Palestine….” The Legal Adviser Note to the UNCCP issued on 9 April 1951 defined the categories of Palestinian refugees covered by the terms of Res. 194 as: 1. ‘persons of Arab origin who were Palestinian citizens and, after 29 November 1947, left territory at present under the control of the Israel authorities’; 2. ‘stateless persons of Arab origin who after 29 November 1947 left that territory where they had been settled up to that date’; 3. ‘Persons of Arab origin who were Palestinian citizens and left the said territory after 6 August 1924 and before 29 November 1947 ’; and 4. ‘persons of Arab origin who had opted for Palestinian citizenship, left that territory before 6 August 1924, and retained their citizenship up to 29 November 1947.’ The second definition of ‘Palestine refugee’ is that found in UNRWA’s Eligibility Regulations. After inheriting its caseload from the UN Relief for Palestine Refugees (UNRPR) and other relief organizations, UNRWA developed a working definition in order to reduce its relief records in response to donor pressure. UNRWA’s initial working definition stated that a Palestine 11