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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8803

9 October 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/echo/palestine
Security enclosure is worsening humanitarian situation

Brussels, 08/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting with the press in Brussels last week, Robert Derwyn Watkins, the head of the Middle East regional office of ECHO (the EU humanitarian aid office), spoke of the alarming humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories. "Permanent uncertainty is a heavy psychological burden on the inhabitants", said the ECHO expert. By way of example, a census carried out in August 2003 in the north of the West Bank alone, counted 48 military...

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