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| Section The ICRC in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Autonomous Territories ©ICRC/T. Gassmann/il-e-00984
West Bank, Qalandya checkpoint. ICRC prison visits programme for families of Palestinian detainees in Israel.
In Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, the ICRC works towards ensuring the faithful application of international humanitarian law (IHL), and above all the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilians in times of armed conflict and occupation. ICRC delegates visit detainees held by Israel and by Palestinian authorities; they facilitate visits by their families and the exchange of messages. The ICRC has a range of assistance and support activities for Palestinian families affected by the violence. These range from helping families (livelihood support projects, rehabilitation of the water supply) to providing supplies for hospitals. During the fighting in Gaza in May and June, ICRC delegates worked to ensure safe passage for the wounded and distributed essential items to medical facilities.
 Key document13-12-2007 The occupied Palestinian territories: Dignity Denied Throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in the Gaza Strip as well as the West Bank, Palestinians continuously face hardship in simply going about their lives; they are prevented from doing what makes up the daily fabric of most people's existence. An ICRC report. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Report Includes PDF, Photo Event15-5-2008 International IHL Conference in IsraelComplementing IHL: Exploring the Need for Additional Norms to Govern Contemporary Conflict Situations, Jerusalem, 1-3 June 2008 (Info resources\Events) Event 15-2-2008 Israel: National Competition on International Humanitarian Law 20073-7 December 2007 (Info resources\Events) Event Includes PDF Feature26-5-2008 Israel/Gaza: 23 years' solitary for a detainee's wifeTahani is one of hundreds of Palestinian wives whose husbands are held in Israeli prisons. For the past 23 years, she has had to raise their six children alone. In June 2007, the Israeli authorities suspended all family visits; she is desperate to see him once again. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Feature 29-4-2008 Gaza is running out of fuelThe current fuel crisis is causing increasing hardship for the people of the Gaza Strip. The ICRC warns that the long-term consequences may be severe if sufficient supplies are not made available to ordinary people and for facilities like public transport, hospitals and water pumping stations. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 29-2-2008 Gaza: opening the road to new possibilitiesContacts with the outside world – and to the local school – are easier now for the people at Wadi Salqa, an agricultural community, after the ICRC helped rehabilitate a track. New jobs have also been created, to help overcome the difficult economic situation. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 29-2-2008 Gaza: new washing machines at last for beleaguered hospitalFollowing five months of intense negotiations with the Israeli Authorities, the ICRC has been allowed to bring two washing machines into the Gaza Strip from Israel, destined for the European Gaza Hospital (EGH), a 210-bed hospital in the town of Khan Younis. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 7-1-2008 Gaza: ICRC and Qatar Red Crescent provide last minute help to Khan YunisFrom afar it looks just like any other artificial lake. But as you get closer, the smell tells a different story. The ICRC's Andrea Koenig describes how the ICRC, the Qatar Red Crescent and local authorities teamed up to ward off disaster in Khan Yunis. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 19-11-2007 Gaza: date palms and olive trees on levelled landOver the past two decades, farmers of the community of El Qarara in the Gaza Strip have seen their land levelled and some of it taken over completely as security zones were expanded. The ICRC is helping the farmers rehabilitate their land, livelihoods – and community spirit. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 27-8-2007 West Bank: food parcels for Hebron familiesOne woman describes how she and her family survive in the West Bank town of Hebron – just one of more than 1,700 families supported by the ICRC through the monthly distribution of food parcels. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 8-8-2007 Gaza: thousands of trapped Palestinians finally able to return homeThousands of Gaza citizens were stranded for nearly two months at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which was closed following the Hamas takeover of Palestinian Authority institutions. A political solution was found at the end of July, allowing the gradual return of the Palestinians. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 29-6-2007 West Bank: food processing workshops in TulkaremA new scheme to teach methods of preserving locally grown produce is creating an income for women in Tulkarem as well as creating valuable opportunities for them to make new friends and feel less isolated. Bernard Barrett reports. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature 13-6-2007 Supplying water to the West BankThe ICRC is working hard with local people in the West Bank to ensure an uninterrupted supply of clean water to villages. Bernard Barrett reports on two recently completed projects. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Feature Includes Photo 5-6-2007 Occupied Golan: stories of separationIsrael's occupation of the Golan severely restricts the ability of its Arab residents to go about their daily lives. In addition, many have relatives across the demarcation line in Syria that they have not seen for years. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Feature Includes Photo Field newsletter31-5-2007 Protecting the medical missionIsrael, Occupied Territories and Autonomous Territories: ICRC delegation newsletter - May 2007 (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Field newsletter Includes Photo, PDF ICRC film27-4-2007 West Bank: behind the barrierSince construction started on the West Bank Barrier, what has been the impact of the Israeli occupation on the lives of ordinary Palestinians? Families from Salfit and Hebron talk about the trauma of living with military operations, being denied access to their land and facing constant restrictions on every aspect of life. (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Films\From the field) ICRC film Includes Video Interview30-5-2008 ICRC continues efforts to gain access to captured Israeli soldiersBéatrice Mégevand-Roggo, the ICRC’s head of operations for the Middle East and North Africa, talks about the organization's efforts to gain access to the three Israeli soldiers captured in June and July 2006 by Palestinian factions and Hezbollah respectively. She uses this example to describe the challenge the ICRC faces in its efforts to ascertain the fate of detainees held in connection with armed conflicts. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Interview Includes Photo 25-1-2008 Gaza: humanitarian situation remains criticalThe crossing into Egypt of hundreds of thousands of Gazans desperate to stock up on basic supplies is a dramatic illustration of their deprivation over the last seven months according to the ICRC's Head of Operations for the Middle East, Béatrice Megevand-Roggo. The ICRC continues to insist that the basic needs of Gaza's population must be met in the long run to prevent more hardship. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Interview Includes Photo 22-1-2008 ICRC supplies cross into GazaOn the day Israel allowed a one-day resumption of supplies to the Gaza Strip, ICRC health coordinator Eileen Daly speaks of the threats facing the civilian population because of the ban on goods entering the territory. Some essential drugs and other items were able to cross into Gaza in the afternoon of 22 January. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Interview Includes Photo Official Statement6-6-2007 Reappraising the role and limits of the legal discourse on occupation in the israeli-palestinian contextAddress by Mr Christoph Harnisch, Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross, Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories. International conference on forty years after 1967, 5-7 June 2007 Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Official Statement Operational update27-6-2008 ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: May 2008In Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strives to ensure the faithful application of international humanitarian law (IHL), in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention protecting civilians during armed conflict and occupation - Contains link to Hebrew version. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Operational update 10-6-2008 ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: April 2008In Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strives to ensure the faithful application of international humanitarian law, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention protecting civilians during armed conflict and occupation - Contains link to Hebrew version. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Operational update Includes PDF 6-5-2008 ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: March 2008In Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, the ICRC works towards ensuring the application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, which protects civilians during armed conflict and occupation – Contains link to Hebrew version. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Operational update Includes PDF 24-4-2008 ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: February 2008In Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, the ICRC works towards ensuring the faithful application of international humanitarian law (IHL), especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, which protects civilians during armed conflict and occupation – Contains link to Hebrew version. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Operational update Includes PDF 24-4-2008 ICRC activities in the occupied Golan during 2007The ICRC has been working in the occupied Golan since 1967 and has maintained a full-time presence there since 1988, when it opened its office in Majd El Shams. Activities focus on re-establishing and maintaining contact between the 21,000 people living in the Golan and their families on the other side of the demarcation line. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Operational update Photo Collection26-6-2007 Gaza: ICRC staff facilitate the transfer of the sick and injured  Erez checkpoint, June 2007. An ICRC team, including a specialist in emergency medical services, transfers sick and wounded Palestinians to Israel where they will receive sophisticated treatment not available in Gaza. The ICRC carries out this work as an intermediary between the authorities in Gaza and Israel and counts on the support of ambulance services, including those of the Ministry of Health and the PRCS in Gaza, and Magen David Adom in Israel. (Info resources\Photos\Middle East and North Africa) Photo Collection Includes Photo 24-1-2006 ICRC activities in the Gaza Strip The ICRC has been permanently present in Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories since 1967. Its aim is to ensure the application of International Humanitarian Law as well as to carry out a wide range of humanitarian activities. (Info resources\Photos\Middle East and North Africa) Photo Collection Includes Photo 23-6-2003 Israelis and Palestinians: "Side by Side or Face to Face" 50 years of photography by Jean Mohr. An exhibition produced by the ICRC and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR). (Info resources\Photos\Middle East and North Africa) Photo Collection Includes Photo Press article24-9-2007 Israel-Palestine A tragedy without end?The years go by, and the situation in the Autonomous and Occupied Palestinian Territories keeps getting worse. Since the Six-Day War in June 1967, open warfare has alternated with periods of calm, but without so much as a glimmer of peace on the horizon. What have been the main humanitarian consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? And how has the Movement been responding? Article published in the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, No 2, 2007 (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa) Press article 15-4-2007 The ICRC in the Palestinian territories: double role, single aimArticle by Marcin Monko, ICRC delegate in Jerusalem from November 2006 until February 2007. Published on Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) website (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Israel) Press article 29-4-2006 "The Palestinians’ hardship is increasing" Aid organizations can step up their assistance for the Palestinian people, but they cannot take the place of the authorities, warns the ICRC director of operations. Pierre Krähenbühl was interviewed by Marlène Schnieper. This article was published in the Tages Anzeiger of 29 April 2006 and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the newspaper. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Press article Report21-11-2006 West Bank and Gaza: ICRC household economy assessment The purpose of this assessment is twofold. The first objective is to get a sense of the impact on household economic security of the financial restrictions imposed on the Palestinian Authority after the election of the Hamas government. The second is to identify the indigent sections of the population, and to classify them by current income, expenditure patterns and coping mechanisms. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Report Includes PDF 15-11-2006 Declining health services in the Palestinian territories: an ICRC reportSince the beginning of 2006, the ICRC has repeatedly warned of the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories. An ICRC report issued today documents the tragic consequences that the interruption of essential health services has had on the Palestinian population. A key finding is that it is the poor, whose numbers are increasing because of the overall economic decline, who are predominantly affected by the current interruption of health services. (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Palestine) Report Includes PDF, Photo Video Collection18-10-2007 West Bank: the effects of the Barrier on Palestinian farmersThis CNN/TVRL report for CNN World Report demonstrates the effects of the West Bank Barrier on Palestinian farmers and shows how the ICRC is trying to facilitate access to their land. (Info resources\Video) Video Collection Includes Video Other siteOther site |
