Informes

Issue Number / Activity Source Comments Displaced / homeless 3000 - 4000 (about 735 families) UNRWA, Jenin Governorate Missing persons 8 (camp) 17 (town) UNRWA ICRC mandate. Prisoners were released from Israeli jails on 28 April. On 29 April a total of 150 families in the camp…

SC/7382 Following is this evening's press statement on the Middle East by Security Council President Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation): The members of the Security Council heard a briefing by the Under-Secretary-General, Kieran Prendergast, on the sending of the fact-finding team to Jenin. The…

Activities Noel Mulner, deputy director of UNMAS arrived in Jenin today and had meetings with UNDAC, UNICEF, UNRWA, THW German engineers, Swedish Rescue Service Agency (SRSA). A UN Explosives Advisory Center is to be set up. UNMAS will be heading…

877-27-04-2002 A regular meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AFLC) to render donor aid to the Palestinians took place in Oslo on April 25 with the active participation of Russian representatives. Important decisions were adopted envisaging the dispatch of…

On April 24, 2002, a team from the USAID West Bank & Gaza Mission visited Jenin to assess increased humanitarian needs in the areas of housing, nutrition and municipal infrastructure following the recent violence. The visiting USAID group included…

Palestinian Economic Assistance and Cooperation Expansion (PEACE) Facility Background During the last six years, the Holst Fund has been an extremely valuable mechanism for providing budget and emergency employment support to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and to the Palestinian people. However, since…

FIFTY-FIFTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A55/33 Provisional agenda item 18 26 April 2002 1. At the time of writing, events in the occupied Palestinian territory are dominating the international agenda. This document focuses on very recent developments from a health and humanitarian perspective; information…

By Jonathan Frerichs, ACT information officer Jerusalem, April 26, 2002 - An ecumenical convoy brought rations, relief and an international show of support to the heavily damaged West Bank town of Jenin on April 25. "The Joint Humanitarian Relief of the…

Jerusalem, April 26, 2002 -- An ecumenical convoy brought rations, relief and an international show of support to the heavily damaged West Bank town of Jenin yesterday. In a 15-hour odyssey that began in Jerusalem, some 150 international pastors, priests,…

Human rights organizations including B'Tselem, HaMoked: Center for the Protection of the Individual and Al-Haq, are organizing an shipment of food to the Palestinian population which is under curfew and siege. The reports received by these organizations indicate that…