[GushShalom] UN relief agency suspending food aid in Gaza

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# UN relief agency suspending food aid in Gaza - following IDF 
restrictions
# Activists arrested for resisting home demolition 
# CO Ben Artzi, exempted but still persecuted, appeals to Supreme Court
# Gush Friday statement: Is Sharon mocking us all

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# UN relief agency suspending food aid in Gaza - following IDF 
restrictions
 
By DPA 
 
 Last Update: 01/04/2004 17:15
 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/411471.html 

 Hebrew / òáøéú
 http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/411528.html

äàå"í: äôñ÷ðå çìå÷ú îæåï ìôìùúéðàéí áøöåòä 
 
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ñåëðåú äñéåò ìôìéèéí äåãéòä òì äôñ÷ú äçìå÷ä áùì äàéñåø äéùøàìé ìäòáéø îëåìåú 
øé÷åú îçåõ ìòæä 
 
 
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) 
announced Thursday it stopped distributing emergency food aid to some 600,000 
refugees in the Gaza Strip. 
   
UNRWA said in a statement that the suspension followed restrictions introduced by 
Israel on the sole commercial crossing into Gaza through which it is able to 
bring in humanitarian assistance.

The agency said it had now completely run out of stocks of rice, flour, cooking 
oil and other essential products. 

"Under normal circumstances, UNRWA delivers some 250 tons of food aid per day in 
Gaza alone as part of a wider program of emergency assistance to refugees, 
initiated shortly after the outbreak of strife in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 
September 2000," the statement said. 

Almost two out of three households in Gaza live below the poverty line and more 
than half its workforce is unemployed. 

UNRWA said it urged Israel to loosen its restrictions in Gaza in a joint 
statement with other UN agencies on March, but thus far without success.
 



# Activists arrested for resisting home demolition 

Six left-wing activists, ten settlers arrested in separate clashes with IDF

(...)
Israeli activists opposed to the policy of house demolitions arrived in Harbata 
after teams from the Civil Administration destroyed an illegal structure in 
Harbata. The activists situated themselves on the roof of [another] building the 
army had slated for demolition. 

 more at: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/411353.html
 Hebrew/ òáøéú: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/411345.html
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# CO Ben Artzi, exempted but still persecuted, appeals to Supreme Court
 
English
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=411530

Hebrew / òáøéú
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=411515
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# Gush Friday statement: Is Sharon mocking us all

Hebrew at request &  soon at the site
òáøéú òì ôé á÷ùä àå á÷øåá áàúø

ad Ha'aretz, April 2, 2004

				FATEFUL GAME

Is Sharon mocking us all?

Is the only aim of the "Disengagement Plan" to convince the Attorney General that 
a Prime Minister - even a corrupt Prime Minister - should not be removed while 
being engaged in a "historic enterprise"?

Are all his explosive initiatives - the assassination of Sheikh Yassin, the Likud 
referendum etc. - intended to draw public attention away from his scandals and 
gain time?

Is Sharon playing with the fate of the state in order to save his skin?


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