Informes

SG/SM/9967, PAL/2027 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is delighted that Ms. Karen AbuZayd, who has done an outstanding job in the last five years as Deputy Commissioner-General, and in the…

Middle East Partnership Initiative funding totals more than $2 million The State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) has issued three new grants totaling more than $2 million to support democratic institutions and economic training in the West Bank and Gaza,…

SG/A/929, BIO/3667, PAL/2026 Biographical Note After consulting the members of the Advisory Commission for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to appoint the Deputy Commissioner-General of UNRWA,…

GAZA, Jun 27, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) discouraged Palestinian land dealers on Monday from purchasing lands adjacent to the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip to be evacuated in August. The PNA ministry of…

In a dry-run for the disengagement plan Israeli forces moved into the al Mawasi area of the Gaza Strip and demolished 11 Palestinian buildings. Israeli settlers destroyed near-by farm-land and closed down a local health clinic. Settlers establish a new…

The trial of the soldier accused of killing Tom Hurndall is the exception that proves the rule. Since the start of the Intifada, the Judge Advocate General's policy is to avoid opening Military Police investigations, in all but exceptional…

Palestinians Would Be Excluded from Seeking Remedies in Israeli Courts (Jerusalem, June 26, 2005) -- Members of the Israeli Knesset are debating a bill that would prohibit residents in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from seeking compensation for death or injury at…

Ref: 75/2005 This morning, a PCHR delegation, comprised of Lawyer Iyad Alami, Director of the Legal Unit, and Hamdi Shaqqura, Director of the Democratic Development Unit, testified before the United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights…

LONDON/GAZA, Jun 24, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Foreign ministers from the world's leading industrialized nations called for a smooth Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, while the international Quartet on Middle East peace urged Israel and…

During this reporting period, the Israeli Army has continued to violate International Humanitarian Law and Fundamental Human Rights, by restricting freedom of movement to Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances and its medical teams. Delay and denial of access, arbitrary…