Occupied Palestinian Territory - Lebanon
Humanitarian aid for Palestinians in the Middle East
Since 2000, the European Commission has provided almost €600 million in humanitarian aid to help meet the basic needs of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Access is one of the main issues for Palestinians living in the West bank and the Gaza Strip: access to food, clean water, healthcare and even jobs. In 2011, ECHO's €42 million aid package will include food assistance to over 800,000 people in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), water and sanitation programmes for around 100,000 Palestinians, basic healthcare and psychosocial programmes focused mainly on children.
The other main concern is protection: ECHO supports the International Committee of the Red Cross in its mandate of monitoring the humanitarian law situation in the oPt. ECHO partners assist families forced to abandon their homes due to demolition, eviction orders and economic difficulties and also provide advice on their legal rights.
Vulnerable Palestinians in Lebanon: In 2011 ECHO continues its assistance to around 100,000 Palestinian refugees, which is almost 40% of the Palestinian refugee population living in Lebanon. With €6 million, the aid ensures shelter, safe water and sanitation, access to secondary health care, psychosocial support, protection and legal aid. It also ensures targeted care to specific vulnerable groups and food assistance to the victims of Nahr el Bared crisis. Particular attention is paid to those refugees who do not receive aid from UNRWA and other organisations, especially those living in the 42 unofficial 'gatherings', and those lacking the legal status to benefit from UNRWA's aid programme.
Videos
Stories from the field
- What is it like to be a child in Palestine today? (2011)
- 'I wish I were in Gaza...' (2011)
- Food assistance in Gaza and the West Bank (2010)
- If you can't build, bake (2008)
- Witnessing food distribution in Gaza (2008)
- Psychosocial support for the "children of the Intifada" (2007)
- The life of Mariam (2005)
- One wall, four stories (2004)
- Food for impoverished families (2003)
Related information
- Factsheet
- Press releases
- Contact: Regional offices
- The world through the eyes of a Palestinian child
- Gaza Conflict 2009: Questions & Answers
Other EU websites about the Occupied Palestinian Territory
