Informes

By Sébastien Carliez in Ramallah Home to 3,500 inhabitants, the village of Dayr Abu Mish'al lies on top of a hill, 35 kilometres north-west of Ramallah, on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It could be a nice place to live in;…

Toine van Teeffelen July 6, 2002: Perhaps 'crocodile' is not the right word to describe the big machine which roams our streets, as I did in my previous letter. It looks, and sounds, more like a dragon. During late afternoons,…

GAZA, 6 July 2002 - A record number of Palestinian children will have a chance to attend child-friendly summer camps this year, with the first of more than 180 such camps opening in the Occupied Palestinian Territory today, UNICEF…

(excerpts from internal WHO report, June 2002) " ... Supplies are stuck either at the borders of closures or in central stores, unable to move ... Specifically UN agencies' logistics are heavily affected due to the long delays and unpleasant and…

Introduction Israeli occupying forces escalated their war against the Palestinian people under official US support and European silence, which have encouraged the Sharon government to commit more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians and property. This week,…

From ICRC News 02/27 On 23 June Dr Asa Molde became the second ICRC vascular surgeon to visit Gaza and the West Bank this year as part of a surgical training programme launched in March. Dr Molde, who qualified as…

Yesterday, USAID signed a $ 5.6 million expansion of an ongoing emergency medical program to address the mounting health needs of the Palestinian people. The program, Emergency Medical Assistance Program, is being implemented by CARE International. Additional funds will be…

UNRWA/HQ/G/19 GAZA, July 2, 2002 - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) today briefed representatives from around 30 countries on the humanitarian needs of refugees in the West Bank following the two military offensives in…

Recently a water resources engineer from CH2MHILL, a USAID contracting firm, participated in the "Allocating and Managing Water for a Sustainable Future" annual conference held in Boulder, Colorado. His presentation, "Water Resources Management Planning in the West Bank" described in…

Gaza (dpa) - Nearly three-quarters of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (73 per cent) live below the poverty line, figures published Tuesday by the Palestinian Planning Ministry in Gaza revealed. The ministry set the poverty line at an income of 1,622…