WFP oPt News


WFP Press Release:

04 March 2010

WFP LAUNCHES FOOD SECURITY ATLAS OF OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

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Socio Economic & Food Security Atlas.

 

12 Jan 2010
WFP Appoints Tunisian Film Star Hend Sabry Ambassador Against Hunger.

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JERUSALEM, 10th Sep 2009.
WFP News Release:
UN Begins Distributing Emergency Food Assistance To Bedouins In The West Bank.

JERUSALEM – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) today launched a joint operation to provide emergency food assistance to thousands of extremely poor Bedouin families in the West Bank now hit by drought. [More]

      

 

JERUSALEM, 2nd April 2009.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a food voucher operation, the first of its kind in the Middle East, to assist some 30,000 people in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt).

The 12-month voucher operation began yesterday in urban areas of the West Bank, where the price of basic food commodities such as wheat flour, sugar, rice, oil, pulses and milk increased by almost 70 percent in 2008. Families will receive eight vouchers per month, with a monthly value of NIS200 (US$50).[More]

JERUSALEM, 2 January 2009.
WFP LAUNCHES EMERGENCY FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS TO FAMILIES AFFECTED BY CONFLICT IN GAZA
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