Rapports

Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian impact of the West Bank Barrier on many Palestinians living in occupied territory. Where it deviates from the "Green Line" into occupied territory, the Barrier deprives thousands of Palestinian…

ROME - In an effort to address the dire socioeconomic conditions in the Palestinian Territories, the United Nations World Food Programme -- in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture -- will purchase 416 MT of olive oil, at…

Gaza: On 11 February 2004, at 3:00am, the Israeli Army using tanks and bulldozers, and Apache Helicopters for air cover, re-invaded Rafah and Al-Shujaeya areas in the Gaza Strip. Heavy machine gun and tank fire were randomly directed at…

[By Rudolf Hinz, a Lutheran World Federation staff member based in Jerusalem last year, for Lutheran World Information. LWR supports medical, vocational and trauma rehabilitation projects of LWF and local partner organizations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.] Jayyous,…

Press Release No. HQ/G/03/2004 Gaza -- The Government of Japan has announced a donation of US$ 5.9 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The donation includes an emergency grant of US$ 1,513,200 to…

The policy of extra-judicial assassinations officially adopted by the Israeli government continued this morning demonstrating Israel's will to escalate the current situation while endangering the lives of Palestinian civilians. 12-year-old, Tariq a-Sufi was left dead when Israel's latest cowardly aggression missed…

Answering the UN's annual appeals for different countries and regions, Sida has decided to allocate EUR 36.7 million to alleviate crises in about 20 countries. A positive change since last year is that Sudan, Angola and the Democratic Republic of…

HALHUL, West Bank - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees have been assisting 21 Palestinian farmers in this southern West Bank city to prepare their land for cultivation and to plant fruit and nut…

In January, USAID's Office of Food for Peace in Washington made a $5 million in-kind contribution toward the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Emergency Operations Appeal for the West Bank and Gaza, filling a gap in the amount…

Geneva, February 3 (KUNA) - The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland said Tuesday that the situation in the Palestinian Occupied Territories is not better but worse. In a press conference in Geneva, Egeland, who was talking to reporters…