Development
EI's Development section offers news and reports about the status of key development issues on the ground and the work of international and local aid agencies. Quality submissions are welcomed.
"Gaza is a man-made crisis"
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 5 August 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IRIN) - The quality of life, the economy and food security for Palestinians living in Gaza have been severely impaired by Israel's strict four-year blockade, according to the UN. Israel says its closure regime is designed to protect Israeli citizens from attacks by militants in Gaza. [MORE]
Gaza crisis "far beyond humanitarian"
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 19 May 2010
DUBAI (IRIN) - With a failing economy, rising unemployment and deteriorating power, sanitation and health facilities, the health of Gaza's population continues to worsen, according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report. In contrast, modest improvements have been made in the West Bank. [MORE]
Israel winning its war on goats
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 23 April 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Nine-year-old Ismail spends every afternoon herding his family's flock of sheep and goats, a scraggly group of roughly 20 animals. They live in a shanty house district near Tel al-Howa in Gaza City, where growth is sparse to non-existent. [MORE]
A silent killer in Gaza
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 14 April 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - "You feel very sleepy and dizzy. You put your head down and all you want to do is sleep. Everything feels very peaceful, you are not even aware what is happening and if there is no immediate intervention you are dead within minutes," Enaam Abu Nada told IPS. [MORE]
Obama said to mull Israel-Palestinian peace plan
Jim Lobe, The Electronic Intifada, 9 April 2010
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Amid still-unresolved tensions over Jewish settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, two major publications reported Wednesday that US President Barack Obama is seriously considering proposing later this year a US peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [MORE]
EU boosts ties with Israel, ignores settlements and occupation
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 23 March 2010
BRUSSELS (IPS) - Diplomats representing the European Union (EU) have drawn up a new plan for strengthening their relations with Israel despite the expansion of illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Spain, the current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, is eager that work proceeds on formally upgrading the Union's political and commercial ties with Israel over the next few months. [MORE]
DFLP's Saleh Zeidan: Obama's speech should become action
Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 18 March 2010
Saleh Zeidan, Gaza-based leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), spoke to The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Almeghari about chances for peace in the region following the latest failures and setbacks in United States peace initiatives. This is part of an occasional series of interviews with various political figures and factions in Palestine. [MORE]
Palestinian women become breadwinners under occupation
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 5 March 2010
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids and arrests, has decimated the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza. The World Bank warned over a year ago that unless Israel eased its restrictions on movement and access in the West Bank the Palestinian economy would further deteriorate. [MORE]
Nightmares continue to plague Gaza children
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 3 February 2010
OCCUPIED GAZA STRIP (IRIN) - Mona al-Samouni, 12, is depressed and has nightmares about the day -- just more than a year ago -- when she witnessed her parents and a number of relatives being shot by Israeli soldiers in their home in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza City. Like a number of other children who witnessed horrific events during last year's 23-day Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, Mona has become increasingly withdrawn and silent -- common ways of coping with tragedies, doctors say. [MORE]
Hamas parliamentarian: "We accept existence of Israel within 1967 borders"
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 1 February 2010
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Palestinian politics are at an impasse. The four-year term of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) ended on 25 January with no new elections planned. Presidential elections, meant to be held last year, were also postponed indefinitely. IPS spoke with Dr. Mahmoud Ramahi, a neurosurgeon and secretary-general of the PLC, on the political deadlock. [MORE]
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