Reports

Press Release No. S/05/2002 UNRWA today received a donation of SYP 910,000 (US$ 19,782.61) from the local and international staff of UN agencies and diplomatic missions in Syria for the Agency's emergency relief and reconstruction activities in refugee camps in…

The ICRC today launched a budget-extension appeal for 44 million Swiss francs, more than doubling the initial 2002 budget of 35 million for Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories to 79 million francs. Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of…

Bethlehem, May 23, 2002: At 7:30 pm hours, an ambulance team from Ramallah was transporting a patient to Bethlehem at the Gilo checkpoint just outside Bethlehem. The team was stopped and the ambulance was searched. At this point, the…

News Release No: 2002/322/MENA WASHINGTON, May 24, 2002 - The World Bank yesterday approved a US$10 million credit to improve the access and quality of basic social services in poor and remote communities in the West Bank and Gaza by…

April 28 - May 12, 2002List of abbreviations: EPI Expanded programme of Immunisation IDF Israeli Defence Forces FT Financial Times HWC Health Works Committees INGO International NGO MAP Medical Aid for Palestinians MOH Ministry of Health NGO Non Governmental Organisation PRCS Palestinian Red Crescent Society SIDA Swedish International Development Authority SRCA Swedish Rescue Committee Association ToR Terms of Reference UHCC Union of…

Welcome to the fourth edition of HART News. As the situation evolves, we are developing more tools to help inform coordination within the health community. We welcome any comments and suggestions you might have as to…

JERUSALEM - The United Nations World Food Programme today launched an emergency operation to help feed about half a million non-refugee Palestinians no longer able to afford their basic needs amid dramatically deteriorating living conditions in the Palestinian Territories. "Hunger and…

The ICRC recently resumed its aid programme for 10,000 of the neediest families in the West Bank (approximately 60,000 people), which had had to be suspended during the military incursions in April. The programme, which began earlier this year,…

Across the West Bank, the arduous task of assessing damage and trying to rebuild institutions, neighborhoods and homes continues. The massive physical damage and destruction left in the West Bank has been estimated at about $500 million by Palestinian…

Delivering a lecture in the Norwegian capital, where an effort to bring peace to the Middle East began a decade ago, a top United Nations envoy said today that even though the "Oslo process" was at a standstill, its…