Rapports

EAST JERUSALEM, West Bank After weeks of pressing for permission from the Israeli military, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and four other Christian organizations recently succeeded in bringing in basic food supplies to 1,200 families in the southern Gaza Strip. At least…

by Alain Epp-Weaver KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- The joy of childhood is a precious commodity in the Khan Younis Palestinian refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip. Machine gun fire and missiles from helicopter gunships keep camp residents…

Background March 2003 marked the 30th month of the current crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). In Gaza, the reporting period witnessed some of the most serious clashes of the Intifada with increased Israeli military incursions, the temporary reoccupation of…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) recently sponsored a major roundtable on emergency food assistance to the Palestinian people. A representative from USAID's Health and Humanitarian Assistance program participated, delivering a paper entitled "Malnutrition: Diagnosis and Appropriate Responses."…

USAID's Response 1. Implementation of nutritional strategy in the West Bank and Gaza through on-the-ground technical partners; and 2. Directed emergency food assistance and vouchers in the West Bank and Gaza. USAID's Nutrition Strategy Food Assistance and Food Vouchers to Vulnerable Populations; Vitamin and…

Press Release No. J/02/2003 Amman: The Government of Japan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) signed an agreement in Amman today under which the Government of Japan will contribute 500 million yen (around US$4.27…

Early last year, as part of their ongoing cooperation, the ICRC delegation in Cairo and the Egyptian Red Crescent Society equipped a first-aid centre affiliated with the National Society in Rafah, on the Egyptian-Israeli border, with furniture and basic…

The Temporary International Presence in Hebron, TIPH, pursues carrying out its tasks in the city. TIPH has no intention to leave the area. TIPH is evaluating the latest developments in Iraq on a frequent basis, but as up till this…

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is joining with the UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People in an initiative to create jobs in Gaza to help stem the raising tide of poverty and unemployment in the…

On 19 March, the European Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten welcomes the appointment of a Palestinian Prime Minister. He said : "The creation of a Prime Minister's office with clearly defined powers and responsibilities is an important step…