Unpaid Palestinian workers get food aid
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Swallowing their pride, thousands of Palestinian government workers who have been living without salaries for nearly four months received food packets from the United Nations.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published yesterday.
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The United Nations will ask donor countries to contribute a record $450 million in aid to the Palestinians, whose economy has been devastated by international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led government, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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World donors pledged $500 million in aid for Palestinians on Friday, including $55 million for a U.N. emergency appeal for humanitarian help, organizers said.
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A massive aid operation is continuing to bring food and supplies to tens of thousands made homeless in southwest Pakistan after a dam burst, killing at least 60 people and leaving hundreds missing.
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The European Union has  begun paying social allowance to hundreds of thousands of needy  Palestinians under a temporary mechanism agreed by the Quartet  of Middle East peace brokers.
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Over 100,000 refugees in Zambia will have their food rations cut by half due to lack of money, the UN says.
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BETHLEHEM Several thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were on their 13th day of a hunger strike on Friday, but the Israeli government has provided few concessions and there has been relatively little interest from the outside world.
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For the first time in four years, the donor nations that sustain the Palestinian economy have reason for optimism. For now, however, that optimism won't mean more money for the Palestinians.
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Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of dozens of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday &#151; the aftermath of Israel's 17-day military offensive, the deadliest in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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Unpaid employees in the Palestinian prime minister's office on Wednesday joined a widespread strike that is challenging the survival of the Hamas-led government.
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The Palestinian economy is sinking into dependence on foreign aid, its public sector swelling while manufacturing and other businesses wither, the World Bank reported Tuesday.
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Long queues form at banks as Palestinian civil servants get their first wage packets in more than a year.
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International sponsors of a stalled Mideast peace plan agreed Saturday to channel aid to cash-starved Palestinians for health care, utilities and social services, while continuing a boycott of the militant-led Palestinian government.
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The president of the World Bank pushed Tuesday for Palestinian economic reforms and the lifting of Israeli travel restrictions in the West Bank in exchange for an additional $500 million in desperately needed aid to the Palestinians.
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President Bush on Wednesday approved  $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help  pay its Israeli utility bills after key lawmakers objected to  plans to use the money for presidential elections in January  and to pay Palestinian salaries.
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Hamas-ruled Gaza will likely see little of the unprecedented $7.4 billion in aid promised to the Palestinians by the international community on Monday.