Rapports

GA/EF/3461 25 OCTOBER 2016 SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION, 21ST & 22ND MEETINGS (AM & PM) Committee also Debates Human Settlements Programme, Focuses on New Urban Agenda Israel’s continued occupation of the State of Palestine and the Syrian Golan was throwing people into…

Highlights In August, thanks to contributing partners, WFP assisted more than 480,000 food insecure non-refugees in Gaza and the West Bank through cash-based transfers using an electronic voucher redeemable in local shops, and direct food assistance. Women…

An innovative project implemented by American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and co-funded by OFID has successfully adopted unconventional methods to tackle water scarcity and boost agricultural production in Palestine. By Alesandra Solano Rain-fed agriculture is a challenge…

Since the start of June 2016, tens of thousands of Palestinians at the West Bank has been suffering the harsh effects of drastic cuts in the water supply. The cuts have been made by Israel’s Mekorot water…

At the main fishing port of Gaza City, Al-Mina, there are dozens of fishermen trying to earn a living to provide for their children under harsh economic conditions. Forty-two-year-old Amjad al-Shirafi, a fisherman from Beach camp…

At its meeting in Munich on 12 February 2016, the Middle East Quartet reiterated its concern that current trends are imperiling the viability of the two-state solution. Underlining its commitment to supporting a comprehensive, just, and…

The blockade on Gaza, which entered its tenth year in June 2016, in addition to recurrent armed violence and conflict, remains the principle cause of the socio-economic and psychosocial crisis in Gaza. But what does it…

On 30 May, the UNRWA Gaza Training Centre (GTC) in Gaza city opened its “photo and story” exhibition in the GTC’s conference hall, displaying the work of the Centre’s first year graphic design students, as produced…

As previously reported by the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) on 4 April, Israel announced the suspension of private cement imports into Gaza through the Gaza Reconstruction…

Under the international theme “Societies thrive when the dignity and rights of all people are respected” and in recognition of the importance of social workers in serving Palestine refugee families in Gaza, the UNRWA Relief and…