Gaza on verge of humanitarian crisis
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As many as 12 United Nations agencies have expressed serious concern about a looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The organisations - including the United Nations Development
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The worst humanitarian crisis in the world is taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan. The government responded to a revolt of peoples there by unleashing the Janjaweed Arab militias, who have raped, pillaged and burned their way across the region.
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The UN's top humanitarian affairs official says he is shocked by the "grim" situation in the Gaza Strip.
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The flood of Palestinians out of Gaza is fraying relations between Israel and Egypt Â ostensible partners in peace but now bitterly at odds over the border chaos Â undercutting the chances that President Bush's Mideast initiative will succeed.
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A little travel has gone a long way toward changing perceptions in Gaza.
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The Gaza violence has forced the United Nations to suspend most of its relief operations for Palestinians trapped in the middle. How the fighting is affecting education and aid.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 13 (IPS) - The European Union's freeze on direct aid to  the Palestinian Authority has led to sharp increases in debts  owed by families in the West Bank and Gaza, the relief agency  Oxfam has alleged.
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between the Gaza town of Rafah and nearby Egypt, witnesses from Rafah said on Friday. Ambulances given clearance by Israeli forces rushed to the scene and rescue workers extracted two men, witnesses and medics said.
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Israeli restrictions have caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank that is growing worse, leaving hospitals unable to treat the sick and keeping farmers off their land, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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Human rights groups challenged Israel's reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza and its intention to cut back on electricity, and Palestinians warned the measures could lead to a humanitarian crisis.
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JERUSALEM, Oct 4  - A French humanitarian group said Monday the Israeli army&#39;s huge ongoing offensive in northern Gaza was hampering access to wounded Palestinians and that basic supplies were running out.
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The UN says Israeli restrictions are severely affecting its ability to provide food and aid to the Gaza Strip.
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The history of the Middle East is at a turning point, as Yasser Arafat&#39;s health deteriorates and Israel takes steps to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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A fragile cease-fire between Palestinian factions in Gaza teetered on the edge of collapse Tuesday after Hamas and pro-Fatah forces battled inside a Gaza City hospital and near the Palestinian presidential compound.
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip, Oct 12  - Israel&#39;s massive military onslaught in the northern Gaza Strip entered its third week Tuesday with the death toll topping 110 and scenes of utter devastation in the territory&#39;s largest refugee camp.
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GAZA CITY, Feb. 15 -- The eight-month closure of the Gaza Strip has created "grim and miserable" conditions that deprive Palestinians of their basic dignity, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.