UN, 10 November 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the formation of an internal inquiry aimed at reviewing “certain incidents” reported at United Nations facilities in the Gaza Strip during the recent summer conflict there between Palestinian factions and the State of Israel.
During his visit last month to the war-ravaged enclave, the Secretary-General called for a thorough investigation into incidents where UN facilities – including schools run by the UN agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) – sustained hits resulting in the deaths of numerous innocent civilians and UN staff members.
UN, 19 October 2014 – A week after a major conference in Cairo on the
reconstruction of war-ravaged Gaza, and in the wake of recent visits to
Gaza by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah and United
Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, the key UN agency on the ground
there has begun scaling up its response to meet critical needs of people
in the Strip.
In a press release, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
announced today that it is now focusing on providing food, water and
sanitation services to over 40,000 displaced people in 18 of its
installations, psycho-social support particularly for children, cash
grants to the homeless for rent, as well as urgent repairs to 118 UNRWA
installations, so that we can bring our services to full capacity.
