DATE=10/10/00
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-267699
TITLE=UN / MIDEAST (L-O)
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
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INTRO: U-N aid agencies are appealing for emergency assistance for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Lisa Schlein has more from Geneva.
TEXT: The World Food Program says more than 100-thousand people in the Palestinian territories are in urgent need of food. W-F-P spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume says those most in need are the vulnerable members of the refugee population: single mothers, widows, the elderly, handicapped, and orphans.
/// BERTHIAUME ACT ///
We are very concerned about those people because their situation is very precarious. First, we have not been able to feed them as we would have wanted to do. Why? Because of lack of funds.
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W-F-P launched an appeal in June for almost five million dollars to bring in more than 14-thousand, tons of food. But Ms. Berthiaume says only 37-hundred tons of food has been received and she says this supply will run out in early December.
Meanwhile, the U-N Children's Fund reports more than 20 Palestinian children have died in the Israeli-Palestinian clashes and more than one-thousand have been injured. Lynn Geldof of UNICEF says the agency is worried that its programs aimed at reconciliation and peace may have no future.
/// GELDOF ACT ///
For UNICEF, there are two-fold concerns regarding children, that the increasing violence will affect children across the region, not just Palestinian and Israeli children, but it might become a generalized situation of fear. And also the fear for the ability to restore children's trust in this issue of the dialogue of peace.
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UNICEF is appealing for nine-million-dollars in emergency assistance for Palestinian children. (SIGNED)
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