Tag: United Nations

  • UN: Israel exclusion zone eats up 30% of Gaza’s arable land

    Ma’an News Agency Israel’s military “buffer zone” along the eastern and northern edge of the Gaza Strip eats up 30% of the territory’s arable land, the United Nations said this week. Fieldworkers with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) told the Christian Science Monitor that they have been unable to verify conditions in…

  • Goldstone’s UN inquiry team arrives in Gaza

    BBC 1 June 2009 A UN team investigating possible war crimes in Gaza, led by Richard Goldstone, has arrived in the Strip on a week-long fact finding mission. The four-member team entered from Egypt after Israel failed to grant visas, despite repeated requests by the UN. The UN wants to investigate whether Israel and Hamas…

  • UN: Little change in problems with Palestinian movement in West Bank

    Tovah Lazaroff | The Jerusalem Post 26 May 2009 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said little had been done in the past nine months to ease movement and access for the Palestinians in the West Bank. According to a closure survey it completed in March 2009 and released on Tuesday,…