Health
A barrier to life
Restricted access to hospitals puts West Bank pregnant women at risk
Recycling waste and spreading the word, Nablus students remake their surroundings
On a table in the Hajj Ali al-Tibi Girls Elementary School sits a child’s vision of a ravaged environment – mounds of dirt cluttered with garbage, cigarette butts, plastic tanks and toy soldiers.
Wasting the environment
Um Al Nasser, Gaza Strip, 29 October 2007 – When the walls of a sewage pond burst above a Gazan village, Monther Shoblak, who runs the sewerage system, raced to the scene knowing what he would find.
Child health suffers in Gaza and West Bank as government workers’ strike continues
Children’s rights receive another blow as services are halted by workers striking in protest at months of not being paid. UNICEF is providing essential supplies in the breach.
Children suffer with no end to violence in Gaza
NEW YORK, USA, 16 August 2006 – As the fragile ceasefire continues to hold in Lebanon, children in Gaza are facing unprecedented levels of violence. Seventy-four have been killed since January, and almost half of those deaths occurred last month.
Crisis worsens Gaza’s already severe water shortage
NEW YORK, USA, 8 August 2006 – The water point in the southern Gaza town of Joret al Lout is the only place to get drinkable water for the more than 10,000 people who live there.
UNICEF Distributes Water and Recreation Kits
Gaza Strip - July 2006. Around 110 children and their families in northern Gaza have been stuck in their homes without clean water or electricity since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict engulfed their small village, Seafa, last month.
Working Towards Universal Salt Iodization in oPt
UNICEF's efforts include upgrading a Palestinian-owned salt factory so that salt sold in the West Bank is properly iodized
Reaching the Un-reached
On a sunny Thursday morning, we headed towards Mneizel to immunize children against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) as part of the national immunization campaign.
Saddam and the mumps
For Saddam, an 11 year old boy from Ein-Misbah governmental school for boys, going to school again seems far away
Saving Children’s Lives on the Frontlines of Gaza
Human interest story on a UNICEF-supported hospital in Gaza
An unprecedented measles immunization campaign in oPt
Almost half-a-million children protected against measles in an unprecedented campaign
