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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN Calls for More Palestinian Aid
2006-06-01
The cash crunch has resulted in a worsening humanitarian crisis, prompting the United Nations and aid organizations working in the Palestinian territories to ask donor nations for additional funding yesterday. In November, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and various NGOs asked the international community for $215 million in their annual emergency aid appeal for programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

Yesterday, they took the rare step of revising that plea just six months after first making it, saying an additional $170 million would be necessary to avert disaster. "The situation has deteriorated to such a degree that we're now forced to revise it upward," OCHA head David Shearer told potential donors and journalists at a press conference in East Jerusalem. The additional aid money would be channeled largely into job creation programs, cash and food handouts for the needy and health care.
Posted by:Fred

#13  Mom, I don't think the Paleos know how to do anything except seethe, reproduce, and enjoy gunsex.
Posted by: RWV   2006-06-01 21:55  

#12  Good idea. Let the Paleos be the Mexicans of the Jordanian job market.
Posted by: Mike N.   2006-06-01 15:45  

#11  Dry up their bank accounts and "jobs". Maybe then most of the Paleos will self-deport to Jordan to do jobs Jordanians won't do.
Posted by: Whomp Angosing5240   2006-06-01 12:58  

#10  Political hacks and terrorists simply don't know how to run a government. Leave it to the UN to think that throwing money at Gaza will solve everything.
Posted by: mom   2006-06-01 11:09  

#9  ...in their annual emergency aid appeal for programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

To me, nothing says summer's started more then the UN's annual emergency aid appeal for programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-06-01 10:56  

#8  I like the idea of relocating it to Gaza. I wonder how many countries would decrease their staff if we moved it there?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-06-01 10:46  

#7  U.N. in Gaza has a lovely ring to it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-06-01 09:56  

#6  I think the U.N. should be headquartered in Brussels. They are so much smarter than us anyway, it just makes sense.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass boys!
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-06-01 08:07  

#5  I command an 80% reduction in water and power to Palestine and that ugly builing in N.Y.

Posted by: Emeror Leon of Buttonwillow   2006-06-01 04:49  

#4  Move the UN to the middle of the Sahara Desert.
Then see how the priorities change.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-01 01:28  

#3  Reason #1,343,453,674.238765 why UN is problem, not solution
Posted by: Captain America   2006-06-01 01:13  

#2  And wasn't it just yesterday that the news from there was that all civil service salaries would be paid? Seems to me that if indeed that happens, then that should be at least a partial stimulus to get their economy sputtering along. And somewhere about the third or fourth turnover of that new money, there should be some new weaponry purchased. And then Israel can close the spigot just a wee bit tighter. Or not.
Posted by: USN Ret.   2006-06-01 00:36  

#1  More aid? Uhh... "no".

Looming "disaster" is a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2006-06-01 00:20  

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