{"id":203581,"date":"2002-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=203581"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:36:24","slug":"auto-insert-203581","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203581\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast crisis &#8211; SecGen Spokesman Press Briefing (15 April &#8211; excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial Unicode MS, san-serif;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial Unicode MS, san-serif;\"><strong>BY FRED ECKHARD<br \/>\nSPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS<br \/>\nÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵ HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK<br \/>\nMonday, April 15, 2002 <\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial Unicode MS, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ ENTERS JENIN CAMP, BLOCKED FROM Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵLOADING NEEDED SUPPLIES <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">A group of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ personnel from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsco.org\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;and from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;) were &#8211; after days of trying &#8211; given permission by Israeli military authorities to enter <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/unrwa\/refugees\/wb\/jenin.html\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Jenin Camp<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;. With the officials were two Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA trucks with food and water supplies. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">After approximately 30 minutes in the camp, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA was told by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) officials that it would not be permitted to unload the much-needed supplies. It then became impossible for the team to continue its mission under those circumstances and they left the camp. <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial Unicode MS, san-serif;\">In their short time inside, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ officials witnessed a population in need of food and especially water. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">According to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA figures, out of a total population of 14,000 refugees in the camp, some 4,000 have left or been forced out of the camp into the neighboring town and villages. A majority of those remaining in the camp, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA, were believed to be women, children and elderly. They have been without any water, food and medical attention for 14 consecutive days. <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">In an emergency bulletin issued today, the Food and Agricultural Organization ( <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.fao.org\/english\/index.html\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">FAO<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;) warned of rising food shortages and malnutrition among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Meanwhile in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/unrwa\/refugees\/wb\/kalandia.html\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">the Kalandia refugee camp<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;in the West Bank, the IDF entered Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA&#8217;s local training center and arrested all 24 boarding students. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked about the purpose of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ mission into Jenin camp, the Spokesman said it was to assess the humanitarian situation in the camp, although its primary purpose was to deliver much-needed supplies, including water and food. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">[&#8230;]<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial Unicode MS, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>SECURITY COÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵCIL TO DISCUSS PROPOSED MIDEAST FORCE THIS WEEK<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked when the Secretary-General would brief the Security Council on his proposal for an international force in the Middle East, the Spokesman said it would take place either Tuesday or Wednesday. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked if the Secretary-General would be presenting to the Council a resolution along the lines of the one adopted for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF), the Spokesman said the Secretary-General would be presenting a concept to Council members and wait to see what their reaction to it. <\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Asked if there had already been reaction to the proposal, the Spokesman answered that there had not been any formal reaction yet but a reading of newspaper editorials over the weekend show that a debate on the issue is now underway. In response to a question, the Spokesman said the Secretary-General had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell but did not specify whether they had discussed the proposed force. <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FRED ECKHARD SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Monday, April 15, 2002 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ ENTERS JENIN CAMP, BLOCKED FROM Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵLOADING NEEDED SUPPLIES A group of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ personnel from the Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East&nbsp;and from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Relief and Works <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-203581\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2161],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-203581","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-intifadah-ii","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/203581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/203581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=203581"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=203581"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=203581"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=203581"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=203581"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=203581"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=203581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}