Rapports

Highlights Funding shortfalls expected in July will force WFP to significantly reduce in-kind food assistance by 50 percent through the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza, affecting 89,000 people, three-quarters of whom are women and children. In May,…

GAZA, 27th June, 2016 (WAM) -- The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, KF, yesterday launched a campaign to distribute food parcels to the underprivileged in governorates in Gaza Strip. The gesture is in implementation of the…

Note by the Secretary-General Summary In its resolution 2015/17, the Economic and Social Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventieth session, through the Council, a report on the implementation of that resolution.…

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…

Highlights A total of 22 Palestinian children were killed in the first quarter of 2016, and 25 in the last quarter of 2015 (30 children were killed in 2015). A total of 26 people, including nine children,…

During the first three days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, UNRWA distributed Suhour food parcels to almost 6,248 Palestine refugee families in 10 distribution centres in all areas of the Gaza Strip. This distribution…

Summary The report, submitted in compliance with General Assembly resolution 70/108, contains an assessment of the assistance received by the Palestinian people and an assessment of needs still unmet, together with proposals for responding to them. It…

•The blockade on Gaza, now in its tenth year - aggravated by recurring conflict – continues to cause severe socio-economic and psychosocial distress for too many people in Gaza. Many feel hopeless with no visible prospect…

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…

“The challenges we are addressing require extraordinary resolve because field realities are truly dramatic,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl tells the UNRWA Advisory Commission meeting held in Amman, 30 May 2016 INTRODUCTION Mr. Chairman; Mr. Vice Chairman; Distinguished Delegates;…