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  • Yemen: New displacement as heavy fighting continues
    7 June 2011 - 9:08pm
    As heavy fighting continues between government and anti-regime forces, some 4,000 urban refugees in Sana’a are seeking protection and relocation away from the city, leaving hundreds displaced within the capital, particularly in the Hasaba district. The latest situation report from the Humanitarian...
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  • ERC Amos ends visit to the occupied Palestinian territory
    18 May 2011 - 2:31am
    Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Valerie Amos completed a four-day visit to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) today. During her visit she met with Palestinian and Israeli officials as well as communities in West Bank Area C, East Jerusalem and in Sderot in Israel. Commenting at the end of her...
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  • oPt: ERC Amos calls for violence to end in the West Bank and Gaza
    15 May 2011 - 10:51pm
    ERC Valerie Amos visited Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank on 15 May, a day of violent protest in the occupied Palestinian territory. In Ramallah, Ms. Amos met with President Mahmoud Abbas and also with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The ERC reiterated the determination of the United...
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  • oPt: ERC Amos calls for an end to forced displacement
    14 May 2011 - 5:34pm
    On the first day of her four-day visit to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Israel, Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) Valerie Amos witnessed firsthand the impact of the Barrier on Palestinian communities in the Jerusalem governorate. The Barrier is the single largest obstacle to Palestinian...
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