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Palestinian issues


PAL/1937
11/03/2003
Press Release
PAL/1937


UNRWA SCHOOL IN BEIT LAHIA DAMAGED BY ISRAELI MILITARY


(Reissued as received.)


GAZA, 10 March (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is to protest to the Government of Israel at the wanton damage done to one of its schools during Israel’s weekend occupation of part of Beit Lahia in the Northern Gaza Strip.

PAL/1933-UNEP/136
07/02/2003
Press Release
PAL/1933
UNEP/136


Governments Back Environmental Rescue Plan For Occupied Palestinian Territories


(Reissued as received.)


NAIROBI, 7 February (UNEP) -- Action to improve the environment of the occupied Palestinian territories was given the go-ahead today by governments, in an historic decision that it is hoped will benefit the people on both sides of the conflict.

PAL/1932
10/12/2002
Press Release
PAL/1932


UNRWA LAUNCHES $94 MILLION APPEAL FOR WEST BANK AND GAZA


JERUSALEM, 10 December -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) today launched an appeal to the international community for $94 million needed to allow the Agency to carry out emergency relief work in the occupied Palestinian territory during the first half of 2003.  By comparison, in 2002 UNRWA asked donors for $173 million over the full year and almost

PAL/1930
06/12/2002
Press Release
PAL/1930


TWO UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE RELIEF AGENCY EMPLOYEES KILLED


DURING ISRAELI MILITARY ASSAULT IN GAZA


GAZA CITY, 6 December (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has learned that two if its employees have been killed during the Israeli military assault on Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of this morning.

GA/PAL/907
29/11/2002
Press Release
GA/PAL/907


Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

268th Meeting (AM)


SOLIDARITY DAY WITH PALESTINIANS ‘A DAY OF MOURNING AND A DAY OF GRIEF’


SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS HEADQUARTERS OBSERVES INTERNATIONAL DAY


Speakers Call for International Action to Halt Israeli Aggression;

Stress Independent Palestinian State Only Guarantee of Israeli Security