Odwan meets with UNRWA director in Gaza

[ PIC 06/05/2013 – 09:11 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Essam Adwan, Head of the Hamas Department of Refugee Affairs, met with UNRWA’s Director of Operations in Gaza, Robert Turner, at the agency’s headquarters on Sunday. During the meeting, Adwan called on the UNRWA’s director to resume its services and to increase, not reduce, the […]

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UNRWA transfers security employees from its head office, step denounced

[ PIC 29/04/2013 – 11:03 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The UNRWA has embarked on transferring many of its security personnel from its main headquarters to its regional office in Gaza as part of preparations believed to be intended for shutting down its head office. An official from the union of local civil servants told the […]

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Dozens protest at UN office in Gaza City

Maan News Agency | April 22, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Dozens of people gathered outside the UNRWA offices in Gaza City on Monday to protest the suspension of aid by the agency for Palestinian refugees. Protestors told Ma’an that they would continue to protest until their demands were met. The UN agency stopped food […]

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Sit-in outside UNRWA in Gaza protesting the reduction of its services

[ PIC 16/04/2013 – 07:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian refugees staged a sit on Monday for the second time outside the headquarters of UNRWA in Gaza protesting against the reduction of the services provided by the international agency to the refugees in Gaza. The Palestinian refugees demonstrated continuously throughout the past two weeks calling […]

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UN warns of serious effects of Israeli sanctions on Gazans

A Palestinian boy sits next to bags of flour at a United Nations food aid distribution center in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. (File photo) PressTV | Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:47PM GMT Gaza has been blockaded by Israel since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, […]

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UN aid agency to reopen food distribution centers in Gaza on Tuesday

A Palestinian boy sits next to bags of flour at a United Nations food aid distribution center in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City in January. PressTV | Apr 8, 2013 8:47PM The UN aid agency provides food to 800,000 Palestinians, nearly half the population of the impoverished enclave. It also provides assistance to an […]

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VIDEO | Refugees in Gaza condemn UN aid cuts‎

Published on Apr 7, 2013 Under severe scarcity and high rate of unemployment, over 1.1 million registered Palestinian refugees live in the blockaded coastal enclave. They form more than 68 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the socio-economic situation in Gaza has been on […]

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EU’s Ashton says Israeli TV station raids break accords

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warned on Saturday that Israeli raids of two Palestinian television stations breaks international accords, and threatens Palestinians state-building. Israeli forces raided Watan TV and Al-Quds Educational TV, both in the Ramallah-district, and confiscated broadcasting equipment early Wednesday. An Israeli […]

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IOA renews administrative detention of former minister Issa Al-Ja’bari for third time

[ PIC 03/03/2012 – 02:05 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has renewed the administrative detention of former minister of local government Issa Al-Ja’bari for fourth months for the third time running. Ja’bari was arrested on 3/5/2011 from his home in Al-Khalil and was previously held by the IOA for 30 months […]

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Israeli authorities should revoke Palestinian human rights defender’s travel ban

PUBLIC STATEMENT 1 March 2012 | Amnesty International AI Index: MDE 15/009/2012 Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israeli authorities should revoke Palestinian human rights defender’s travel ban Having decided to permit Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin to travel abroad from the West Bank for the first time in six years, Israel should now revoke his travel […]

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Fatah calls Israeli raids on TV stations “state terrorism”

MEMO March 1 2012 A spokesman for Fatah’s Office of Information and Culture, Ahmed Assaf, has described Israel’s raids on the Watan and Al-Quds TV stations as “state terrorism” and a violation of international laws that guarantee freedom of information. In a media statement, Mr. Assaf said, “The attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation […]

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Gap between Humanitarian and Development Aid

By Meagan Kay Palestine Chronicle Feb 28 2012 When emergency relief turns into a protracted crisis, what happens to the aid that falls between short-term humanitarian relief and development assistance over the medium-term? Who should deliver it? Who should oversee it? In the current aid architecture, it’s not always clear who is responsible for ensuring […]

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IOF soldiers break into the home of liberated prisoner

[ PIC 27/02/2012 – 05:40 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into the home of a liberated prisoner in Nablus at dawn Monday and searched it, relatives said. They said that the IOF soldiers stormed the house of Nidal Subhi without prior notice and forced his father out of his bed before […]

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Four political detainees on hunger strike for one week

[ PIC 26/02/2012 – 06:03 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Four detainees in the PA jails have been on hunger strike in Nablus jails for the past week demanding their release, relatives said on Sunday. They said that the four, all from Nablus, have been on hunger strike since Monday and are adamant on continuing in […]

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Jonathan Cook: The myth of Israel’s liberal Supreme Court exposed

25 February 2012 – Israeli Occupation Archives By Jonathan Cook, MERIP – 23 Feb 2012 Jonathan Cook Little more than a decade ago, in a brief interlude of heady optimism about the prospects of regional peace, the Israeli Supreme Court issued two landmark rulings that, it was widely assumed, heralded the advent of a new, […]

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