Informes

USAID's Response 1. Implementation of nutritional strategy in the West Bank and Gaza through on-the-ground technical partners; and 2. Directed emergency food assistance and vouchers in the West Bank and Gaza. USAID's Nutrition Strategy Food Assistance and Food Vouchers to Vulnerable Populations; Vitamin and…

Press Release No. J/02/2003 Amman: The Government of Japan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) signed an agreement in Amman today under which the Government of Japan will contribute 500 million yen (around US$4.27…

Early last year, as part of their ongoing cooperation, the ICRC delegation in Cairo and the Egyptian Red Crescent Society equipped a first-aid centre affiliated with the National Society in Rafah, on the Egyptian-Israeli border, with furniture and basic…

The humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) continues to deteriorate. The World Bank reports real per capita incomes are now half their September 2000 level and unemployment stands at 53 percent of the workforce. The food program of…

The United Nations agency assisting Palestine refugees said today that it has received contributions towards its 2003 emergency appeal that will enable it to continue essential emergency assistance activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. On 10 February, the head of…

War in Iraq would devastate ongoing aid work' JERUSALEM -- World Vision, the international Christian humanitarian organization, is transporting food, blankets and other relief supplies to communities in Gaza and the West Bank that would be hardest hit by curfews and…

In preparation for a war on Iraq and its possible repercussions in Gaza, Word Vision is pre-positioning 2,500 relief kits in high risk locations. Based on the experience of the first Gulf War, transporting humanitarian relief items as well as…

Fourteen TIPH observers participated in distributing food to Palestinian families in celebration of the Eid al-Adha feast in Hebron. The observers concentrated their efforts in the Tareq Ibn Ziyad area and close to the Kiryat Arba settlement. Many people…

Emergency Food programme to end in March UNRWA HQ, Gaza -- Mr Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) -- the largest humanitarian agency in the region has issued an appeal…

Background September and October saw a continuation of the violence and destruction that has plagued the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for over two years. A total of 121 Palestinians were killed and a further 741 injured during the two months…