Rapports

Ministry of Health declared the state of emergency in the light of the recent release of the preliminary findings from the "Nutritional Assessment and Sentinel Surveillance System for West Bank and Gaza - 5 August 2002". The MOH has taken the…

PARIS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An international task force including members of the "quartet" of Middle East peace brokers raised concerns on Friday about what it called "the deteriorating Palestinian humanitarian situation". "It (the task force) reiterated the Quartet's call for…

86/2002 The OPEC Fund for International Development has approved an emergency grant of US$200,000 to help maintain services at the El-Wafa Medical Rehabilitation Hospital in Palestine. Financing is urgently needed by the hospital to allow it to cope with the…

Members of the United Nations Security Council today voiced their support for a meeting in Paris of an international task force dealing with the reform of the Palestinian Authority. The Council President, Ambassador John Negroponte of the United States, said…

H.E. the Minister of Local Government and the Special Representative of UNDP/PAPP sign the Third Annual Work Programme for the Local Rural Development Programme funded by the European Commission. Jerusalem, 22 August 2002 - The Minister of Local Government, Dr. Sa'eb…

(Compiled from reports by Ramzi Zananiri, Executive Secretary: ICC and Rudolf Hinz, ACT Facilitator in the OPT) Geneva, August 22, 2002 - Despite a curfew of nearly two months that has cut the West Bank area of Nablus off from the…

Israel's Government had definitely turned a corner and had taken steps to address certain issues of"access" to avert a humanitarian disaster in the West Bank and Gaza, Catherine Bertini said this afternoon at a Headquarters press briefing. She was…

Jerusalem, 21 August, 2002 - The United Nations Development Programme / Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Italy and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on the development of…

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Personal Humanitarian Envoy today visited relief projects targeting women and children in Gaza. Catherine Bertini heard the concerns of youngsters from the area while attending a "Children's Parliament" run for Palestinian student leaders by the UN…

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Personal Humanitarian Envoy, Catherine Bertini, focused her attention on the situation in Gaza today, meeting with senior Palestinian Authority officials, a UN spokesperson said in New York. Ms. Bertini began her activities today by meeting with…