Reports

By Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops fought a fierce gunbattle with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, despite an agreement to seek a lasting truce that could boost U.S. efforts to forge a global anti-terror…

Gaza (dpa) - Five Palestinians were killed in the Palestinian territories Thursday and 28 were injured in the most serious outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence in many weeks. Israeli tanks early Thursday entered Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and shelled…

August/September 2001, Gaza Overview Amidst hopes for the resumption of dialogue between the Palestinian and Israeli leadership to produce a viable ceasefire agreement, violence continued to spread throughout the Palestinian territories and Israeli cities. Further escalation of the eleven-month-old Intifada was…

Facing a severe budget deficit, the United Nations agency helping millions of Palestine refugees urged donors gathered in Amman today to contribute to its activities as a force of stability in the Middle East. Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of the UN…

Press Release J/09/2001 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is facing a financial crisis at a time when it is needed more than ever as a force for stability in the Middle East. That was the…

SG/Inf(2001)30 / 21 September 2001 (13-17 July 2001) 1. I travelled to Israel and the Palestinian National Authority from 13 to 17 July 2001. The purpose of the visit, at the invitation of the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian Legislative Council,…

Reporting that the situation on the ground was "relatively calm," the United Nations envoy to the Middle East today said he was still awaiting word on the scheduling of new meetings between the Israelis and Palestinians to discuss the…

Staff and wire reports AMMAN, JORDAN - Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat announced yesterday that he is unilaterally enforcing a cease-fire, and Israel responded by ordering a halt to certain military operations. The announcement is a reverberation of the Sept. 11…

SG/SM/7963 The following statement was issued this evening by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General very much welcomes the important statement made earlier today by President Yasser Arafat ordering his security services to implement a ceasefire and Israel's subsequent decision…

GA/PAL/873 Committee on Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 258th Meeting (AM) The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People this morning elected by acclamation Papa Louis Fall (Senegal) as its Chairman for a one-year term. Mr. Fall…