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Executive Summary Three years after the 2014 hostilities (08 July – 26 August), Gaza is yet to recover from the extensive destruction caused by the conflict. A crippling Israeli economic blockade (land, air and sea), now entering…
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HIGHLIGHTS The interest of UNRWA’s partners in the situation in Gaza remains high exemplified by the visit of a Japanese delegation led by His Excellency Mr. Tomita Koji, Ambassador of Japan to Israel. to the coastal enclave…
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Three years after the most recent conflict began in Gaza – July 8 2014 – poor families are traumatised by the poor economic and social conditions they are forced to live in, says a new report…
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Three years after the war in 2014, Gaza citizens continue to live in displacement. Of 11,000 homes totally destroyed during the war, a little over one third have been rebuilt. Many families continue to live in…
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HIGHLIGHTS Gaza’s electricity crisis continues: while the Gaza power plant resumed partial operations, Israel reduced its supply by 40%, at the request of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The referral of over 1,600 patients to medical treatment outside Gaza…
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Humanitarian agencies in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are calling upon the international community to provide US$25 million in new humanitarian funding to stabilize the spiralling humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. In a document presented…
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SUMMARY In December 2016, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) launched its Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for 2017. Since then, the situation in the Gaza Strip has significantly worsened, due to a…
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Highlights WFP assisted nearly 480,000 food insecure nonrefugees in Gaza and the West Bank in May, through both cash-based transfers (CBT) - using an electronic voucher redeemable in local shops - and in-kind food assistance. Women and…
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HIGHLIGHTS In a statement issued over the weekend, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbühl marked 50 years of occupation of the Palestinian territory – the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza – and called on the international community…
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Jerusalem, 14 June 2017 The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper, warned today about the disastrous consequences of a further reduction in electricity-supply to the Gaza Strip on the living conditions of two…
