Reports

Casualties Palestinians: Deaths: 25 Injured: 82 (approximate) Israelis: Deaths: 1 Injured: 3 Sources: OCHA FCU, PRCS, UNRWA, IDF website, Israeli MoFA. 2. Incidents involving ambulances and medical teams West Bank Denial of access: 1 Delay (30 minutes): 0 Shooting/Damage to Ambulance: 0 Gaza: Denial of access: 0 Delay (30…

Part of a continued effort to supporting the return of children to school GAZA CITY, October 19, 2004 -- UNICEF today began distribution of more than 40,000 school bags to children in the Gaza Strip, starting with schools damaged by…

The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR) is a regional ecumenical organization and part of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) that was set up in the early 1950s to help Palestinian refugees with their newly acquired…

Summary Over the past four years, the Israeli military has demolished over 2,500 Palestinian houses in the occupied Gaza Strip.1 Nearly two-thirds of these homes were in Rafah, a densely populated refugee camp and city at the southern end of the…

Jerusalem, October 17th, 2004 - Arising from the tremendous human and physical loses and the needs to repair the damages resulted from the last Israeli incursion to Jabalia and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip and as part…

New initiatives - from planting trees to helping businesswomen - aimed at fostering development in the Palestinian territories have been announced at the conclusion of a four-day United Nations-backed Arab International Forum held in Beirut. The Forum, which ended yesterday,…

1 - 15 October / 2004 Summary of information and update for the surveyed communities during the past two weeks (October 1st through October 15th). The WaSH MP has been updating the data collected during the past two years. The new…

Amman - UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, is holding a two-day meeting with 26 major donor countries and host authorities to plan the future of humanitarian assistance to the millions of stateless Palestinians…

Mouin Rabbani (Mouin Rabbani is senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.) Operation Days of Penitence, launched on September 29, 2004, is the Israeli military's most extensive incursion into the Gaza…

Ref: 152/2004 While Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued their wide scale offensive on the northern Gaza Strip for more than 2 weeks, they have escalated attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in other areas of the Gaza Strip.…