PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE WELCOMES PRESENTATION

OF ‘ROAD MAP’ TO ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SETTLEMENT

At its 271^st meeting, on 6 May 2003, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People adopted the following statement:

ISRAELI MILITARY FORCEFULLY OCCUPIES UN SCHOOL IN WEST BANK

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

270^th Meeting (AM)

AFRICAN UNION ADMITTED AS OBSERVER TO COMMITTEE ON PALESTINIAN RIGHTS

Observer for Palestine Expresses Concern That War

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.

ELEVEN PALESTINIANS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES IN JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP

UNRWA Commissioner-General Hansen Expresses Sorrow and Distress

(Reissued as received.)

Committee on the Inalienable Rights

of the Palestinian People

269^th Meeting (PM)

QUARTET ‘ROAD MAP’ FOR TWO STATES WAY OUT OF ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CRISIS,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AS PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS SESSION

UNRWA:  AID FOR PALESTINIANS SUFFERS DUE TO FOCUS ON IRAQ

Emergency Food Programme to End in March

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.

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

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.