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Five-year-old Majed could hardly contain his glee when he tried on the warm jacket he received during ANERA’s distribution of clothing appropriate for cold weather. “It makes me warm. I’m going to wear it to school…
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By Mina Remy The occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) faced one of the worst winter storms seen in decades last month. The West Bank experienced record snow fall, which municipalities were ill-equipped to handle. While Gaza was spared…
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HIGHLIGHTS ●The winter storm that strike the oPt in December exacerbated already fragile living conditions and livelihoods among large segments of the Palestinian population. ●Low-lying areas across the Gaza Strip were flooded, resulting in the temporary evacuation of…
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Recent floods in Gaza drove thousands of people from their homes in the harshest winter in years. But outgoing Oxfam media officer Karl Schembri, in his final blog at the end of four years in Gaza,…
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Update: On the day of the demolition, the six families received tents from the ICRC and erected them at a nearby site. This morning, 13.1.14 soldiers and Civil Administration officers arrived, took down the six tents…
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Severe floods hit the Gaza Strip last December and provoked the emergency evacuation of over 4000 people. On Saturday 14 December, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) stated that "large swathes of northern Gaza…
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GAZA, 24 December 2013 – The Bank of Palestine is providing 50,000 USD to UNICEF to help Palestinian children and families in the aftermath of the severe winter storm that hit Gaza, in an initiative whereby…
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December 30, 2013 ANERA In the aftermath of the torrential rains and flooding in Gaza, ANERA already has distributed 500 cleaning and personal hygiene kits to some of the affected families in Gaza City’s Al-Zarqaa neighborhood. Many of…
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For Salah Uliyan, a Palestine refugee in Beach camp, Gaza, daily life is a numbers game: There is a careful arithmetic that gets him from each day to the next. He is the head of an eight-person…
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Ramallah: Human Appeal International (HAI) is distributing winter supplies including warm clothes to more than 1000 Palestinian children as part of its plan to protect Palestinian people from bitter cold wave that hit the occupied Palestinian…
