Reports

June Overview The Gaza blockade entered its third year this June. This blockade has been characterized by the UN's most senior humanitarian official, John Holmes, as a form of collective punishment on the entire Gazan population. The blockade was imposed…

Jerusalem/Gaza City, 09 July 09 - The European Commission and UNRWA has announced that the EC would donate €5 million to UNRWA's Social Safety Net Programme (SSNP) to provide critical food assistance to Palestine refugees in camps in Jordan,…

Egyptian Red Crescent Society Chief Mamdouh Gabr said Tuesday 7/7/2009 the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has agreed on sending a total of 3,000 tons of food supplies from the Egyptian aid agency to the Palestinians. Coordination is underway…

This 3-month project aims at improving the food security of 1,250 vulnerable families by ensuring their access to sufficient food, supporting 350 small agricultural producers at risk of losing their harvest because of the lack of liquidity or other…

PCBS-WFP-FAO (NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD QUANTITATIVE SURVEY) Section one: Main findings Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and…

EL CAIRO. (2 de julio de 2009)--El Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) recibió hoy con beneplácito una contribución de 50,000 dólares proveniente del Fondo Mexicano de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo para apoyar las operaciones del PMA en Gaza.…

CONTENTS 1. MAIN ISSUES 2. LOGISTICS COORDINATION 3. UPDATE ON COGAT 4. PRIORITIES FOR IMPROVING DELIVERY OF HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO GAZA 1. MAIN ISSUES - The logistics cluster support cell received notification from COGAT (25 June) of a new format to be used to screen…

LATEST DEVELOPMENT SINCE TUESDAY, 16 June 2009 In a statement issued on 17 June, a group of 38 United Nations and non-governmental organizations expressed concern over Israel's ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, calling to attention the sanction's indiscriminate nature: it…

IP/09/923 Brussels, 16 June 2009 - The European Commission has launched an emergency decision for €6 million to provide food assistance to victims of the drought in the occupied Palestinian territory and Syria. The funding will be channelled via the Commission's Humanitarian…

MAJOR ISSUES - As at end-May, only six truckloads of construction material had entered Gaza since "Cast Lead" destroyed homes, schools and critical infrastructure. Many families are using mud to rebuild homes. - According to Defense for Children International, around…