Reports

RAMALLAH – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$3.6 million (CAD$4.8 million) contribution from the Government of Canada to support nearly 200,000 of the most vulnerable non-refugee Palestinians living in Gaza and…

Highlights WFP assisted nearly 480,000 food insecure nonrefugees in Gaza and the West Bank in April, through both cash-based transfers (CBT) - using an electronic voucher redeemable in local shops - and in-kind food assistance. Women and…

Key messages 2017 marks 50 years of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and 10 years of its blockade on the Gaza Strip. Palestinians still live in a protracted crisis causing a deteriorating humanitarian situation emanating from…

SITUATION OVERVIEW With the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in its fiftieth year of occupation, the major drivers of humanitarian vulnerability remained unchanged during 2017. Humanitarian assistance is required by an estimated two million people, including 1.2 million…

Highlights In 2017, as the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) enters its 50th year of occupation, humanitarian needs remain high. Tensions continue in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and Gaza continues to experience restrictions and deprivations stemming…

On 11 December 2016, for the first time in 2 years, MERCY Malaysia entered Gaza through the Rafah border crossing in Egypt to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gazan people. This mission marks the first humanitarian…

Bedouin and herder communities are among the poorest and most marginalized populations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In the West Bank, an estimated 30,000 Bedouins live in 183 communities in Area C, under complete Israeli control,…

Nearly 130,000 children will be reached in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank RAMALLAH, 3 April 2017 – The Government of Japan has donated USD $3,138,950 in support of UNICEF’s humanitarian response focusing on life-saving and…

Highlights Thanks to donor support, WFP assisted nearly 470,000 food insecure non-refugees in Gaza and the West Bank in February, through both cash-based transfers (CBT), using an electronic voucher redeemable in local shops, and direct food assistance.…

HIGHLIGHTS UNRWA estimates that during 2016 Gaza Field Office generated more than 27,700 jobs, including over 14,700 regular staff, more than 4,600 Job Creation Programme (JCP) full-time job-equivalents and close to 9,000 construction worker full-time equivalents (FTEs).…