UN ReliefWeb Emergencies Update oPt - 28 December 2008

 

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Title - oPt: Health situation in Gaza, 28 Dec 2008
Source - World Health Organization
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCOT-7MSEUK?OpenDocument

Title - 251 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 20 children and 9
women, killed and 584 others, including 130 children and 28 women, wounded
Source - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7MSEJE?OpenDocument

Title - oPt: Timeline - Israeli-Hamas violence since Gaza takeover
Source - Reuters
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7MSE47?OpenDocument

Title - oPt: Statement on the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
Source - Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7MSDM3?OpenDocument

Title - Factbox - Developments in Israel-Gaza fighting, 29 Dec 2008
Source - Reuters
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KSAI-7MS8UA?OpenDocument

Title - RI to send RP 2 b in medical aid to Palestine
Source - Jakarta Post
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KSAI-7MS8H9?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel mounts third day of Gaza raids, 307 killed
Source - Reuters
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KSAI-7MS5CP?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: UN human rights chief expresses her grave concern in the
escalating violence in Gaza
Source - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MS4QL?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Statement by Prof. Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur for
Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Source - UN Human Rights Council
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MS4LN?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Statement on the humanitarian situation in Gaza from Douglas
Alexander
Source - Department for International Development
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/TUJA-7MS4KX?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: In a criminal escalation, IOF strikes on Gaza kill and injure
over 900 people as the siege continues to debilitate health and other vital
services
Source - Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7MS3P3?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Situation in Gaza (28/12/2008)
Source - Government of the United Kingdom
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/TUJA-7MS3KQ?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Civilians must be protected in Gaza and Israel
Source - Amnesty
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7MS3JE?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Egyptian border under pressure as Israeli raids on Gaza
continues
Source - Xinhua
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KSAI-7MS3HH?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: IDF opens border crossing for humanitarian aid transfer to
Gaza
Source - Government of Israel
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/TUJA-7MS32S?OpenDocument

Title - On the bloodiest day in the history of occupation, hundreds of
Palestinian civilian deaths and casualties in an Israeli aerial offensive
against the Gaza Strip
Source - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7MS2RU?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report 28 Dec 2008 16:00
Source - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MS2K9?OpenDocument

Title - Israel pounds Gaza for second day, nearly 290 killed
Source - Reuters
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRPLD?OpenDocument

Title - OIC Secretary General urges compliance with the call of the UN
Security Council to stop the sufferings of Palestinians in Gaza
Source - Organization of the Islamic Conference
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRPH9?OpenDocument

Title - Egypt ambulances waiting empty on Gaza border
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRPDU?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Iran to send humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip - report
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRP3Y?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Jordan to send aid to Gaza
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRNYW?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Emergency Gaza update 28 Dec 2008
Source - Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRNSZ?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Bombing severely reduces Oxfam's aid programme in Gaza as
humanitarian crisis looms
Source - Oxfam
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRNPY?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Gisha - Open Gaza's crossings for civilian access
Source - Gisha
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRNLT?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel bombs tunnels on Gaza-Egypt border
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRNJ8?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: UN human rights chief condemns Gaza violence
Source - Deutsche Presse Agentur
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRN7R?OpenDocument

Title - Security Council calls on Israel, Palestinians to end violence
immediately
Source - UN News Service
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRN46?OpenDocument

Title - OPT/Gaza: ICRC calls for restraint as hospitals overwhelmed by
scale of emergencies
Source - ICRC
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRMVT?OpenDocument

Title - Egypt police repel Palestinians on tense Gaza border
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRMKQ?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Turkish Red Crescent sends foodstuff to Gaza
Source - Xinhua
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRMHD?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: ACT warns of further Gaza humanitarian crisis without
ceasefire
Source - Action by Churches Together International
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRLU6?OpenDocument

Title - Factbox - Developments in Israel-Gaza fighting, 28 Dec 2008
Source - Reuters
Date - 29 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRLP4?OpenDocument

Title - Israel/OPT: Security Council press statement on situation in Gaza
Source - UN Security Council
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MRL2T?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: 271 killed so far in Israeli strikes on Gaza - medics
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MRBJ3?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel to allow aid convoy into Gaza
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MRBGT?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: UN Security Council calls for end to Gaza violence
Source - Reuters
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MRBET?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: UN mulls appeal to end Israeli Gaza raids, militant rocket
firing
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MRAF8?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel warns of ground offensive as jets pound Hamas in Gaza
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MRAA6?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Security Council begins Gaza consultations
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR8HB?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel pounds Gaza for second day, 229 killed
Source - Reuters
Date - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR83D?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Iran to send aid ship to Gaza
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR5KW?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: UN Security Council calls emergency meeting on Gaza
Source - Deutsche Presse Agentur
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR4M3?OpenDocument

Title - Palestinian human rights community calls for international action
Source - Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Defence for Children
International/Palestine Section, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR3LF?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Fighting for health
Source - Palestine Monitor
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR3GJ?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Aid agencies warn of humanitarian catastrophe if Gaza is
attacked.
Source - CARE, Oxfam
Date - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MR39X?OpenDocument

Title - Secretary-General urges immediate halt to renewed
Israeli-Palestinian violence
Source - UN News Service
Date  - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQP8D?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel kills 229 in air strikes on Gaza Strip
Source - Reuters
Date  - 28 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQNXT?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Déclaration de la présidence du Conseil de l'Union européenne
sur les violences à Gaza
Source - European Union
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQN88?OpenDocument

Title - Israel/OPT: FM Livni's special briefing to the foreign press
Source - Government of Israel
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQMZG?OpenDocument

Title - Israel/OPT: Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the
Secretary-General on the situation in Gaza and southern Israel
Source - UN Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQMH7?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: The OIC Secretary General condemns the massacre perpetrated by
Israel in Gaza and calls for a ministerial meeting
Source - Organization of the Islamic Conference
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQM69?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Snap Analysis - Israel-Hamas conflict could escalate
Source - Reuters
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQM42?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Mangled bodies, wailing relatives at Gaza hospital
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQLYL?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Egypt slams Israeli raids on Gaza, opens border crossing
Source - Agence France-Presse
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQLUZ?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: U.S. urges Israel avoid civilian casualties in Gaza
Source - Reuters
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQLNJ?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Arab FMs to hold emergency meeting on Gaza - Moussa
Source - Xinhua
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQLL5?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Arab and Islamic leaders condemn deadly raids on Gaza
Source - Deutsche Presse Agentur
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQLFC?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: EU calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Source - Reuters
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQL9V?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Israel attacks Gaza, more than 155 reported killed
Source - Reuters
Date  - 27 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MQL3M?OpenDocument

Title - Amid myriad global crises, 'busy, dynamic and constructive' General
Assembly underscored importance of genuine solidarity to ensure stable,
secure world
Source - UN General Assembly
Date  - 26 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MQ2LC?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Some supplies allowed into Gaza as Israel opens crossings, UN
reports
Source - UN News Service
Date  - 26 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX-7MPUH9?OpenDocument

Title - OPT: Egyptian aid convoy enters Gaza
Source - Xinhua
Date  - 26 Dec 2008
URL Address  -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/YSAR-7MPQZ5?OpenDocument