Reports

WASHINGTON, DC -- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) administers U.S. economic assistance and development programs to foster a stable political and economic environment that will permit a comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East. Since the…

Three years of curfews, closures and conflict in the West Bank and Gaza have plunged two-thirds of the population into dire poverty, increased hunger and restricted access to health and education. Today UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency…

While donations had increased for the regular programmes of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), donations to its emergency programme had fallen off dramatically, according to Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the…

Damascus -- With a contribution from the Syrian Arab Popular Committee (SAPC), UNRWA has been able to hand out some SYP 3,862,500 million (US$ 75,000) in immediate humanitarian assistance to 250 families in Rafah, Gaza, who were left homeless…

Introduction During July, both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Government undertook steps towards the implementation of the Quartet's Roadmap for peace, leading to cautious optimism about the future of the diplomatic process. Following the April accession of Mahmoud Abbas as…

USAID recently approved a grant for $24,600 to fund food baskets for 492 families from the Rafah Refugee camp. The average family size in Rafah is 7, seven people; thus, approximately 3,444 individuals will benefit from the creation and…

The USAID West Bank & Gaza Mission has awarded a $2,000,000 grant to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP)-Palestinian Territories. This grant is in support of WFP's Emergency Operations Appeal to assist 530,000 Palestinians affected by conflict during the…

Appeal Target: US$ 1,652,879 Geneva, 3 October 2003 Dear Colleagues, Violence, conflict and trauma continue into the fourth consecutive year of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (28 September 2000). 2,603 have been killed so far, and 41,000 injured, with an estimated…

Press Release No. HQ/G/16/2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amman - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) told a meeting of 27 donor and host governments today of the urgent need for funding for its emergency operations in…

By Paul Jeffrey, ACT International Jerusalem, September 17, 2003 - As peace in the Middle East proves elusive once again, Action by Churches Together (ACT) International remains committed to accompanying people in the occupied Palestinian territories as they search for…