Reports

Highlights WFP continues linking its food assistance with local production. Since 2011 and to date, WFP has invested nearly USD 258 million in Palestine`s economy, including USD 167 million through Cash Based Transfers (CBTs) and 91 million…

OVERVIEW The humanitarian context of the oPt is unique amongst today’s crises and remains directly tied to the impact of the occupation, which marked its 50th year in June 2017. A protracted protection crisis continues. At least…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, On behalf of the Secretary-General, I devote my regular briefing on the situation in the Middle East today to presenting the fourth report on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334…

JERUSALEM – A contribution of €900,000 from France has enabled the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide much-needed food assistance and nutrition support to more than 20,000 people in Gaza for three months The French…

General Assembly Fourth Committee Seventy-second Session, 26th Meeting (AM) GA/SPD/655 7 November 2017 Chair of Special Committee on Israeli Practices Affecting Arab Human Rights Says It Received No Response to Request for Access A sharp increase in settlement construction activity fuelled…

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl tells the General Assembly’s Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization Committee) that he is encouraged by ongoing efforts to improve the Agency’s financial stability, but urges collective action to address a shortfall…

Highlights WFP assisted 473,000 food insecure non-refugees in Gaza and the West Bank in September, through both cash-based transfers (CBT) - using an electronic card redeemable in local shops - and in-kind food assistance. Women and children…

Highlights WFP assisted 473,000 food insecure non-refugees in Gaza and the West Bank in July, through both cashbased transfers (CBT) - using an electronic card redeemable in local shops - and in-kind food assistance. Women and children…

Biweekly highlights Amid fluctuations in the sources of electricity supply, outages in the Gaza Strip continued during the reporting period for 18-20 hours per day, disrupting living conditions and undermining the provision of essential services. Since 12…

SUMMARY In December 2016, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) launched its Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for 2017. Since then, the situation in the Gaza Strip has significantly worsened, due to a…