[ 13/08/2011 - 08:47 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The UN Relief and Works agency for Palestine refugees has announced the closure of offices in Jenin and its refugee camp as of Friday after receiving threats to its staff. UNRWA said in a statement that the closure would continue until the Palestinian Authority and local parties [...]
Tag Archives: Relief
Announcement | It’s time to end this siege for good.
Viva Palestina | Aug 13, 2011 Viva Palestina is returning to Gaza with our sixth major international aid mission to bring an end to the illegal siege. Much has changed for the Palestinian people and the wider region in the 11 months since our last convoy. Dictatorship has fallen in Egypt. Palestine has moved up [...]
Miles of Smiles to send 3 more aid convoys to Gaza
[ 02/08/2011 - 11:52 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Issam Yousef, the general coordinator of Miles of Smiles 4, said that three new aid convoys would be sent to the Gaza Strip within the coming three months including one later this month. Yousef, who was speaking Monday evening at a meeting between Gazan premier Ismail [...]
Miles for Smiles Arrives in Gaza with Aid
PNN – Palestine News Network – 01.08.11 – 12:53 Gaza-PNN- Humanitarian aid convoy arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening through the Rafah Border Terminal. The group called, Miles for Smiles, consisted of eight trucks containing medical supplies, medications, milk for infants and cars especially designed for people with disabilities. Thirty-five solidarity [...]
Operational Update ICRC – Gaza: a never-ending effort to relieve suffering – Contact Details Included
28-07-2011 Operational Update For four years, Gazans have been living in a closed environment, in which the movement of goods and people are subject to severe restrictions. The ICRC is involved in an array of activities intended to ease their hardship. This is an update on its activities. All 1.6 million Gazans, packed in to [...]
Malaysian Astronaut Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor To Join Ramadan In Gaza Mission
KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 (Bernama) — Malaysian Astronaut Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha will be among at least 26 people joining the “Ramadan in Gaza” humanitarian mission for 10 days from Aug 15. Malaysian Islamic Organisation Consultative Council chairman Dr Jamnul Azhar Mulkan said today that the team would bring medicine, food and [...]
#Flotilla | The Mavi Marmara Will Go Whenever the Palestinians Need It
by Silvia Cattori | July 21st, 2011 | Dissident Voice In mid June, Bülent Yıldırım, chairman of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, declared that the Mavi Marmara ship, which was hard hit in the Israeli raid, could not take part in the “Freedom flotilla II” but will “definitely set sail for Gaza when it completes repair [...]
Hamas: Service decline signals intent behind UNRWA name change
[ 10/07/2011 - 05:32 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas’s refugees’ affairs department has said the recent decline in UNRWA’s services confirms the body’s “evil objectives” behind the recent name change, which excluded the term “relief works”. The Hamas department said in a statement on Sunday that officials from the UN Palestinian refugees agency should explain [...]
UNRWA halts number of projects due to lack of financing
[ 09/07/2011 - 09:09 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– UNRWA has halted a number of its projects due to the lack of financing thus crippling services to 1.1 million refugees living in the Gaza Strip, a UN report said on Friday. The weekly report for the UN office for coordinating humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said that UNRWA [...]
Medical aid convoy lands in Gaza
[ 07/07/2011 - 09:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A medical aid convoy sent by the Arab Medical Union has delivered some five tons of aid to the Gaza Strip after landing on Wednesday. The convoy, headed by the AMU emergency committee secretary-general Ibrahim al-Za’faraani, entered through Rafah crossing on the Strip’s border with Egypt. On [...]
IOA decides to demolish Mohammed Al-Fateh Mosque
[ 01/07/2011 - 08:39 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– David Harari, the vice-mayor of the Zionist administration of Jerusalem municipality, has issued an order to stop all renovations made to the Mohammed Al-Fateh mosque and to demolish it altogether alleging the construction was illegal. The Mosque stands only a short distance from the Aqsa Mosque [...]