Reports

The children have sketched scenes in crayon that explode with violence. Some depict soldiers, tanks, or helicopters firing steady streams of bullets and missiles into roughly drawn houses, bulldozers crushing homes, and stick figures lying wounded and bleeding. These images…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Israel on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing his country's report, Yaakov Levy, Ambassador…

In sudden bursts of automatic weapons, Palestinian snipers fired on Israeli Defense Force (IDF) troops manning the checkpoint at the city's entrance. Israeli soldiers returned fire as more troops rushed in from all directions by jeep, truck, and armored…

More than 250 Palestinian and 72 Israeli children have been killed in Israel and the Occupied Territories in the past 23 months. When the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child meets to consider Israel's periodic report on…

Jean-Christophe Pegon, coordinador general de Médicos del Mundo-Francia en Palestina. Desde 1998 el trabajo de Médicos del Mundo-Francia en Palestina se desarrolla en dos áreas, la quir=FArgica, con misiones programadas puntualmente y muy especializadas, y la psíquica, con un enfoque…

In keeping with its humanitarian mandate as well as its national and international responsibilities, the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRCS) has provided the Palestinian with relief assistance including medicines and cash aid in three…

The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, today welcomed the decision of the Government of Israel to lift the siege of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound. In a statement released by his spokesman, Mr. Annan voiced his strong belief…

Statement by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland Director-General World Health Organization Introduction 27 September 2002 -- In its resolution WHA55.2 of May 2002, the World Health Assembly asked me to assess the health situation of the people in the occupied Palestinian…

Merlin, a UK based NGO, has launched a project to provide health care to Palestinians in areas of the West Bank where movement is heavily restricted. This innovative programme is in response to the increasing health problems of much of…

The telephone keeps ringing. "It's hardly surprising", says Dr Abdel Rahim Abu Saleh, head of the primary health-care unit of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Ramallah. "The city is under curfew again and everyone, including doctors, must remain…