{"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 UNITED NATIONS<br \/>\nUN 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>UN ENTERS JENIN CAMP, BLOCKED FROM UNLOADING 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 UN 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 UN 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;\">UNRWA<\/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 UNRWA 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, UNRWA 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, UN 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 UNRWA 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 UNRWA, 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 UNRWA&#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 UN 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 COUNCIL 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 UNITED NATIONS UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Monday, April 15, 2002 UN ENTERS JENIN CAMP, BLOCKED FROM UNLOADING NEEDED SUPPLIES A group of UN personnel from the Office of the Special Coordinator for the Middle East&nbsp;and from the UN 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}]}}