PANELLISTS EXAMINE INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO CONTAIN

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS, RESUME DIALOGUE

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

NICOSIA, 17 April –- The events of Sabra and Shatila were being repeated today in the Palestinian occupied territory, Jerusalem Times publisher Hanna Siniora said this morning at the International Meeting in Support of Middle East Peace.

NICOSIA MEETING REVIEWS SITUATION IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES SINCE SEPTEMBER 2000

Israeli Courts Cite Security Considerations

As Reason for Human Rights Violations by Israeli Soldiers

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

UN RELIEF MISSION TO JENIN REFUGEE CAMP REVEALS MONUMENTAL DESTRUCTION

UNITED NATIONS MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE OPENS IN NICOSIA

Secretary-General Says Leaders Must Bring Their People Back from Edge of Abyss

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

FOOD INSECURITY, MALNUTRITION ON RISE AMONG PALESTINIANS IN WEST BANK, GAZA STRIP

UN INTERNATIONAL MEETING TO SUPPORT MIDDLE EAST PEACE

TO CONVENE IN NICOSIA, CYPRUS, 16 - 17 APRIL

CATASTROPHIC CONDITIONS IN JENIN CAMP AS ISRAEL

MAKES MASS ARRESTS AT TRAINING CENTRE

Camp Residents in Nablus Area Asked to Leave Shelters,

Large-Scale Israeli Military Operation under Way in Camp

UN:  ‘END THE HORROR IN THE CAMPS’

GAZA, 7 April (UNRWA) -- Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has called on the Israeli military to cease its bloody assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank.

STATEMENT BY BUREAU OF COMMITTEE ON EXERCISE OF INALIENABLE RIGHTS

OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

(Reissued as received.)

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People adopted the following statement at its meeting in New York on

5 April 2002:

SITUATION IN JENIN CAMP ALARMING, OTHER REFUGEE CAMPS TARGETED;

WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION AND LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED