Reports

The European Commission has adopted an emergency decision for €1 million for victims of house demolitions in the Gaza Strip. 13,000 people who have lost their homes in recent months will be provided with emergency shelter and relief items, and with…

Location of operation: Occupied Palestinian territories, Gaza Strip, Rafah Amount of Decision: Euro 1 million Decision reference number: ECHO/PSE/BUD/2004/01000 Explanatory Memorandum 1 - Rationale, needs and target population 1.1. - Rationale: Between 16 and 22 January 2004 the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) carried out…

Background The cycle of violence continued throughout the last quarter of 2003 and all efforts to revive the stalled negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians failed. Despite criticism from high-ranking former and current members of the Israeli defence establishment, Israel failed to…

IDF operations in Rafah, January 2004 The Israeli Defence Forces have carried out a campaign of demolition and land leveling in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip. During its three most recent incursions, between 16 and 22…

PRESS RELEASE Jerusalem, 22 January 2004 - As part of its continuing effort to ease the acute humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Government of Japan announced its intention to extend an emergency grant aid of approximately US…

The Government of Japan decided on December 19 (Fri) to extend emergency grant aid of approximately six million dollars in total to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Trust Fund for the Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People. In…

Three years of curfews, closures and conflict in the West Bank and Gaza have plunged two-thirds of the population into dire poverty, increased hunger and restricted access to health and education. Today UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency…

Damascus -- With a contribution from the Syrian Arab Popular Committee (SAPC), UNRWA has been able to hand out some SYP 3,862,500 million (US$ 75,000) in immediate humanitarian assistance to 250 families in Rafah, Gaza, who were left homeless…

Introduction During July, both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Government undertook steps towards the implementation of the Quartet's Roadmap for peace, leading to cautious optimism about the future of the diplomatic process. Following the April accession of Mahmoud Abbas as…

Disaster Zone Nine people were killed and at least 93 people injured after massive incursions into Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, Palestine last week. Two children, aged eight and twelve, were amongst those killed during the violence which began on…