Rapports

Press Release No. S/02/2002 UNRWA today received a cheque for SYP15 million (US$ 326,000), donated by the Syrian people to help those suffering because of the conflict in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Mr Ahmad Abdul Karim, Chairman of…

Depuis le 29 septembre 2000, début de la deuxième l'Intifada, les conditions de vie des Palestiniens se détériorent. Aujourd'hui, la moitié de la population vit en dessous du seuil de pauvreté. Jérusalem, décembre 2001. Les rues de la vieille ville…

HQ/G/2/2002 UNRWA HQ, Gaza - UNRWA has come to the immediate assistance of Palestine refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the conditions of strife prevailing since October 2000. The Agency's emergency assistance operation in the occupied…

A senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East today held high-level talks in Cairo as part of his current tour of the region. Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, met today with senior…

SHATI REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces injured three bystanders, including two schoolgirls, when they fired at the car of a suspected Hamas militant Tuesday and then chased him into a U.N. clinic where they opened…

(1 - 8 January 2002) Overview The reporting period witnessed a continuing decline in the number of violent incidents with Israeli sources declaring it the quietest week since the beginning of the current intifada in late September 2000. The Israeli Defence…

Introduction When the first Palestinian Intifada began in December 1987, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) did not exist. When the Convention came into force in 1990, Palestinians working on children's issues hoped that this would…

TUNIS, Jan 3, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The World Ghddafi Institution for Charities said in Tripoli on Thursday that it has extended 5.5 million U.S. dollars in aid to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and a number of…

SUMMARY "Closure" means Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement of persons or goods across the border between the West Bank or Gaza Strip and Israel or other countries, and also internally within the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Office of…

Middle East Australia's bilateral program to the Middle East will continue to address the urgent social and economic situation in the West Bank and Gaza, through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and Australian and local Palestinian NGOs.…