Reports

Upcoming shipment will provide 1,800 Gazans with urgently needed food - Program Manager for GazaStrip calls humanitarian situation "the worst I've ever seen." Portland, OR - The global relief and development agency Mercy Corps will deliver urgently needed food basics to 1,800…

The United States Government, through the US Agency for International Development, continues to deliver humanitarian supplies to the people in Gaza. During the week of December 29, USAID has provided badly needed medical and food supplies to health care facilities in…

The following information is based on reports from the UN Country Team and humanitarian partners in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as information received from countries involved in the humanitarian response. Highlights - The humanitarian situation in Gaza is deteriorating.…

Excerpts from Secretar y Genera l Ban Ki Moon 's statement to the Security Council (31 December 2009) "... conditions for 1.5 million people in Gaza today are nothing short of terrifying. The people of Gaza are living under heavy…

British aid agency Islamic Relief has delivered four trucks of food aid to the main Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. The food aid included flour, rice, beans, tinned meat and fish. Aid workers report that before the delivery of…

LIFE has obtained permission from the Israeli authorities to deliver urgently needed relief items to Gaza via a specially designated humanitarian corridor. Southfield, Michigan (12/29/2008) Life for Relief and Development (LIFE), a U.S.-based charity, has begun providing emergency humanitarian relief to…

Introduction Living conditions for many Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) continued to deteriorate during the second half of 2008. As the protracted socioeconomic crisis which began in late-2000 entered its ninth year, Gazans faced unprecedented levels of hardship and…

Introduction On 27 December, Israeli forces launched a massive military operation in the Gaza Strip codenamed "Cast Lead", the stated aims of which were to end the firing of rockets into Southern Israel. In the first three days of the operation, hundreds…

Agency deeply disappointed that Israel rejects pause in the bombing for humanitarian access OXFORD, UK - International aid agency Oxfam said today that the crisis in Gaza was now critical. Besides the fighting, the dwindling supply of food and fuel…

WINNIPEG, Man. - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is committing an additional $15,000 for emergency food assistance in Gaza following Israel's aerial bombardment of the impoverished region. Earlier this month MCC approved an emergency cash grant of $10,000 to help the Amira…