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Palestinian issues


GA/PAL/964
25/08/2004
Press Release
GA/PAL/964


Bureau of Palestinian rights committee issues statement concerning


hunger strike in Israeli detention facilities


The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement concerning the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention facilities on 24 August:

PAL/2007
14/07/2004
Press Release
PAL/2007


UNRWA DELIVERS FOOD FOR 20,000 PEOPLE IN BEIT HANOUN, CONVOY COMES UNDER FIRE


(Reissued as received.)


GAZA, 14 July (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) today delivered 370 tons of food aid to the population of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip.  The aid will provide food for approximately 20,000 persons, two thirds of the population of the besieged town.

PAL/2005
01/07/2004
Press Release
PAL/2005


VANESSA REDGRAVE MAKES HUMANITARIAN APPEALFOR GAZA, WEST BANK


(Reissued as received.)


JERUSALEM, 1 July (UNRWA) -- The actress and human rights activist Vanessa Redgrave has made an appeal to the international community to increase its emergency humanitarian assistance to Palestinians suffering in the occupied Palestinian territory and to the Government of Israel to ease its movement restrictions on United Nations agencies.