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...after a preliminary investigation of the Jan. 6 attack at the Fakhura girl's elementary school, "we're 99.9% sure that no militants were at the school," says Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The agency questioned survivors, including UNRWA staff that run the school under U.N. auspices...
...humanitarian corridor" to bring supplies to the besieged 1.5 million Gazans trapped by the conflict and called for all fighting to be suspended for three hours on a daily basis to allow residents to stock up on necessities. "While we welcome the humanitarian corridor," says Gunness, the UNRWA spokesman, "this cannot compromise the need for an immediate cease-fire...
SOURCES: WWW.US-ISRAEL.ORG, WWW.FMEP.ORG, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY CENSUS CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS, JAFI, UNRWA, ISRAEL'S CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS, EUROPA, WORLD BANK, CIA WORLD FACTBOOK, MILITARY BALANCE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, EAST VIEW CARTOGRAPHIC, WWW.CARTOGRAPHIC.COM
...UNRWA's mandate is to serve Palestinian refugees. To achieve this goal, the headquarters in Vienna agreed to Mr. Berri's conditions," the spokeswoman said. She declined to be named...
...while others try to sabotage the relief operation. At Ein el Hilweh, some recently supplied tents have been slashed or set afire, while new sewer pipes and water faucets have been broken or pilfered. "We've made some progress," says Dennis Brown, an American who works for UNRWA. "But it has been a few steps forward, a few steps backward the whole time...