Media coverage

UN warns of deterioration Palestinians’ conditions in Gaza

Indybay · 2006-08-08

This August 2006 compilation of reports on Gaza, opening with a UN warning that conditions for some 1.4 million Palestinians were deteriorating, quotes Omar Shaban as director of the Gaza office of Catholic Relief Services, a Caritas member. He says constant Israeli military attacks have made the situation ever worse and that aid cannot keep up: “Even if we get 200 food packets for families whose homes have been destroyed, the next day we need 200 more… Every day it gets worse.”

This August 2006 compilation of reports on Gaza, opening with a UN warning that conditions for some 1.4 million Palestinians were deteriorating, quotes Omar Shaban as director of the Gaza office of Catholic Relief Services, a Caritas member. He says constant Israeli military attacks have made the s…

Original source

His own writing on this subject

• The UN Reconstruction Mechanism for Gaza Must End, Not Be Reviewed — QudsNet, 2018
• Three Years After the Cairo Reconstruction Conference: Funding Promises, the UN Mechanism, and Enduring Suffering — PalThink for Strategic Studies, 2017

More media coverage

• 2006: A Year of Economic Disaster in the Palestinian Territories — Al Bayan, 2006
• A Harsh Year for Palestinians, Economically and Socially — Al Jazeera Net, 2006
• Caritas deeply concerned about deteriorating situation in Gaza — ReliefWeb / Caritas, 2006
• Palestinians in Gaza worry about becoming the 'forgotten war' — The Christian Science Monitor, 2006
• Economist: The Palestinian Territories Face Their Worst Humanitarian and Economic Crisis Since 1967 — Ma'an News Agency, 2006

All media coverage