OCHA releases new report on Palestine: Fragmented lives

OCHA releases new report on Palestine: Fragmented lives - Humanitarian Overview May 2011-2012

OCHA has recently released a new report, Fragmented Lives: Humanitarian Overview 2011, highlighting the priorities identified by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), the main humanitarian coordinating body for UN agencies and NGO partners in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

"Overall, the HCT considers the situation in the oPt to be a protection-based crisis, resulting from ongoing conflict and occupation, a lack of respect for international law, a near complete absence of accountability and a system of policies that severely undermine Palestinian communities to live normal, self-sustaining lives," they state in the Foreword.

"Were these factors removed, Palestinians have all the capacity, organisation, training and motivation to develop their economy and lives free of large scale humanitarian interventions."

They identified the main advocacy priorities to address the above mentioned-concerns as Accountability & Third State Responsibility; Life, Liberty & Security; Forced Displacement; Movement & Access; and Humanitarian Space.

The full report can be found here: http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_fragmented_lives_annual_report_2012_05_29_english.pdf

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