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Evicted Palestinians in Baghdad to receive UNHCR aid

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
9 May 2003

The UN refugee agency announced today that it has sent a convoy of aid to help newly-displaced Palestinian refugees in Baghdad amid concerns of a backlash against them in post-war Iraq. UNHCR has also expressed concern about the expulsion of scores of Iranian refugees in southern Iraq.

International report examines effect of West Bank 'wall' on Palestinians

5 May 2003

A new report by international donors, which includes the United Nations, has found that a separation barrier Israel is building in the West Bank could cut off 12,000 Palestinians from their land, work and essential social services.

Israeli military forcefully occupies UNRWA school

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
3 April 2003

In the early morning on 2 April, Israeli military forces broke into and occupied a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)’s girls’ school in Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, and proceeded to use the school as a detention centre for male residents of the camp between the ages of 15 and 40.

Unnatural disaster

Dominic Nutt
24 March 2003

Child malnutrition is growing in Gaza and the West Bank - and it is a man-made problem, says Christian Aid journalist Dominic Nutt. This piece was published in The Guardian.

Gazan branch of Union of Health Work Committees to name new cultural center after Rachel Corrie

Mona El-Farra
23 March 2003

The Union of Health Work Committees Board of Directors has decided to name its new children and youth cultural center in the Rafah Refugee Camp after Rachel Corrie. By naming the center after Rachel, this will provide a lasting outstanding memorial to our Palestinian kids so that they can know and keep in mind that they are not alone in this struggle. Dr. Mona El-Farra writes for Union of Health Work Committees-Gaza.

International, Israeli, Palestinian health workers call on Israeli Government to guarantee health workers protection

World Health Organization
15 March 2003

In an unprecedented call for protection, international, Israeli and Palestinian aid agencies joined together today to call upon the Government of Israel to ensure that its military respects the neutrality of all health personnel, services and property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) including east Jerusalem. Since the start of the current conflict in September 2000, 25 Palestinian health workers, including ambulance drivers, doctors, nurses and medical volunteers, have been killed and 419 have been injured.

Christian Aid's Palestinian partners prepare for the worst

Christian Aid
12 March 2003

Christian Aid partners in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) are stockpiling food and medicines to prepare for the repercussions of a possible war in Iraq. They fear that, as world attention focuses on Iraq, Israeli incursions into the OPT will become even more fierce, with serious humanitarian consequences.

Only political solution can resurrect devastated Palestinian economy - UN

United Nations
5 March 2003

Immediate implementation of a political solution leading to two states is the only way to resurrect the devastated Palestinian economy and protect Israel from “murderous attacks,” a senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, said today.

World Bank: 60 percent poverty level in Palestinian territories

World Bank
5 March 2003

Twenty-seven months after the outbreak of the intifada, 60 percent of the population of the West Bank and Gaza live under a poverty line of US$2 per day. The numbers of the poor have tripled from 637,000 in September 2000 to nearly 2 million today.

Suffering of Palestinians, Israelis can end only through political solution, UN envoy says

United Nations
18 February 2003

The suffering of Palestinians and Israelis - the deaths and injuries, the economic devastation, the profound insecurity - can end only through a political solution, a top United Nations envoy in the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, said today at a meeting in London.

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