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Tensions between Israel and Hamas have been escalating since the beginning of 2017. Shelling between both the Gaza Strip and southern Israel first increased at the beginning of the year and has been regular since, as…
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West Bank/East Jerusalem Demolition response Demolished structures(Jan-May 2017): 256 of which 92 are residential, 61 inhabited displacing 445 individuals, including 254 children Donor-funded structures: 79 of which 30 are residential 71 households have received a shelter response in 2017;…
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HIGHLIGHTS The blockade on Gaza will enter its 11th year in June 2017. The heavy restrictions on the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza , in addition to the three consecutive conflicts and…
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Summary The present report, submitted in compliance with General Assembly resolution 71/126, contains an assessment of the assistance received by the Palestinian people and an assessment of needs still unmet and proposals for responding to them. It…
occupied Palestinian territory
Fifty years of occupation of Palestinians and 10 years of siege imposed on Gaza have led to increasingly irreversible disintegration of the Palestinian territory and of its people. The establishment of a Palestinian state and wider…
occupied Palestinian territory
Highlights The UNRWA Advisory Commission, the Agency’s advisory body composed of its largest donors and host governments, met in Amman on 22 and 23 May to review strategic developments in the situation of Palestine refugees and the…
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HIGHLIGHTS On 20 May, as part of his continued outreach activities, the Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, Mr. Bo Schack, accompanied by the Chief of the UNRWA Gaza Area Office, Mr. Majed El- Bayed and the…
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Key messages 2017 marks 50 years of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and 10 years of its blockade on the Gaza Strip. Palestinians still live in a protracted crisis causing a deteriorating humanitarian situation emanating from…
occupied Palestinian territory
HIGHLIGHTS ● Unless additional funds are provided, fuel reserves for the 186 most critical health, water and sanitation facilities in the Gaza Strip will be exhausted in June. ● Aerial spraying of herbicides along Gaza’s perimeter fence compounds…
occupied Palestinian territory
SITUATION OVERVIEW With the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in its fiftieth year of occupation, the major drivers of humanitarian vulnerability remained unchanged during 2017. Humanitarian assistance is required by an estimated two million people, including 1.2 million…
