Gaza schools, clinics face closure due to UN budget crisis
17 August 2010
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Monday that it is running an 84-million-dollar deficit that could soon force it to shut schools...
The girl who became the only fisherwoman in Gaza
16 August 2010
The Independent - With an invalid father and a family to feed behind the blockade, 16-year-old Madeleine Kulab has learnt to brave dangerous waters. Catrina Stewart reports
As the waves...
PA health system to be self-reliant
16 August 2010
(Jerusalem Post) Transfer of Palestinian patients to Israel for medical treatment will soon come to an end in order to keep funding inside the Palestinian Authority, according to the...
Al Jazeera: Expired medicine donated to Gaza
12 August 2010
Al Jazeera - There is no doubt that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are in dire straights, desperately in need of medicine and technology.
However, millions of dollars worth of...
Israel's Gaza blockade: Millions of dollars worth of aid piles up in warehouses
12 August 2010
(CSM) Ashdod, Israel -In a half-dozen warehouses in this southern Israeli port, refrigerators and roofing materials for Israeli homes share space with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of...
Gazans Get Extra Cheese, Little Growth From Eased Blockade
11 August 2010
(Bloomberg) At Shafiq Nushtaha's Gaza City grocery, dairy prices have been cut in half as Israeli imports flood the territory and products such as French Laughing Cow cheese that...
Hospital emergency as heat combines with power cuts
11 August 2010
(Irish Times) GAZA'S SOLE power station resumed operations yesterday, following a delivery of fuel. The 200,000 litres of industrial diesel was enough to run one of the two generators...
Gaza's biggest hospital caught in political, economic crossfire
10 August 2010
(McClatchy) Dr. Ehab al Ramlawy fanned beads of sweat off his face with the shiny black X-ray slide in the sweltering, dimly lit emergency room of Gaza City's al...
Gaza: 1 generator working as power station gets limited fuel
9 August 2010
Ma'an- One generator in Gaza's sole power station was restarted on Monday morning, after receiving a limited quantity of industrial diesel, an Electricity Company spokesman said.
Jamal Ad-Dardasawi said "Only...
Child workers in Gaza
6 August 2010
(BBC) With Gaza's economy devastated by years of sanctions and decades of conflict, many families send their children to work in the city's rubbish dumps, streets and workshops.
Although Israel...
2009 settlement report says population up 40 fold
5 August 2010
The number of Israelis living in illegal West Bank settlements increased more than 40 times between 1972 and 2009, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Palestinian Central...
The Poisoning of Life in the Gaza Strip
5 August 2010
(PCHR) The signs which dot the beach along the Gaza City waterfront are clear: "THIS BEACH IS POLLUTED," they read, and yet they seem to serve only as obstacles...
UN - 'Impossible' to rebuild Gaza quickly
5 August 2010
(IRIN) -- The Gaza Strip needs about 86,000 new housing units, mostly because of population growth but also to replace the thousands of homes destroyed or damaged as a...
Gaza girls turn to fishing as rising poverty erodes barriers
4 August 2010
Adel Zaanoun, MEO, GAZA CITY -Every morning the two girls wake up before dawn, row their wooden skiff out into Gaza's heavily-patrolled waters, and try to catch enough fish...
Medics: Airstrike kills 1 in south Gaza
4 August 2010
Maan - An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian operative in the southern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, medical officials said. Sharif Abdel Hadi Abbey, 22, died and two others were...
Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General
3 August 2010
(UN) Today marks the first anniversary of the eviction of 11 Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah. On this sad occasion, I met with representatives of the...
Gaza humanitarian timeline since 2005
2 August 2010
GAZA CITY, 1 August 2010 (IRIN) - A four-year Israeli blockade, a 23-day military assault in 2009 and political infighting between Hamas and Fatah have created what a number...
Medics: Israeli airstrike injures 42 in Gaza
2 August 2010
Ma'an - The home of a senior Hamas military wing leader in the central Gaza Strip was struck by Israeli warplanes, leaving 42 civilians injured on Monday morning, medics...
Chris Patten: The Gaza Prison
2 August 2010
Project Syndiate, GAZA CITY - It is easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land - 45 kilometers long and maybe eight...
West Bank Bedouins worse off than Gazans
30 July 2010
WEST BANK, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) - The road to al-Hadidiya village in the northeastern West Bank district of Tubas is dotted with boulders etched with a warning in...
