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TEL AVIV - Israel has denied a group of Israeli medical volunteers entry into the Gaza Strip, affecting the group’s ability to reach patients in the beleaguered enclave, an official told IRIN. full report

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DAMASCUS, 07 October 2008 (IRIN) - Some 150,000 farmers have lost their harvest this season, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) which has launched an appeal for US$20 million to tackle the worst drought in four decades.
NAHR AL-BARED, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) - Life for 300 Palestinian families and their thousands of other kinsmen displaced from Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon - some for the third time in their lives - might very soon be getting a lot worse, in large part due to the neglect of the region’s Arab states.
AWARTA, NABLUS DISTRICT, 21 September 2008 (IRIN) - Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a “greater Israel” was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of Assira Qabaliya, in the northern West Bank, causing extensive damage and wounding several people, in what was a reprisal attack.
JERUSALEM, 12 September 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem do not attend school as there is no room for them in the state school system, parents and rights groups said, adding that the drop-out rate remained the highest in the Israeli school system.
CAIRO, 07 September 2008 (IRIN) - Italy has long been a popular destination among young men in Nile Valley villages. Relatives save up money for each other and a transnational information and communication network facilitates the movement of migrants across the Mediterranean.
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