Showing posts with label OCHA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OCHA. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Map Error

If you go here, you will observe a map issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) which is the part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. It's "local" branch is oPt which stands for "occupied Palestinian territory".

A section of the map:


There is an error there. No Shiloh.

Instead, Shvut Rachel has expanded to cover our territory.



Is OCHAoPt occupying?

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

I Can't Figure Out the Discrepancy

If, as reported, in Gaza

The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has declined, but at least 335,000 people still remain in emergency shelters or with host families. 

and 

Alternative housing will be needed for the approximately 100,000 people whose homes have been destroyed or severely damaged

why isn't the real number of IDPs 235,000?

What is the reason for the discrepancy?

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Big Lies Are in the Small Details

And here is the United Nation's OCHA report, "Background to the crisis", page 7:-

On 7 July 2014, the Israeli army launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip, codenamed “Protective Edge”, with the stated objective of stopping Palestinian rocket firing at southern Israel and destroying the military infrastructure of Hamas and other armed groups. This development marked the collapse of the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire understanding reached between Israel and Hamas in November 2012, which has been gradually undermined since December 2013. The latest escalation round started in early June, characterized by an intensification of Israeli airstrikes and rockets launched from Gaza at southern Israel.

Note:

A.  Operation Protective Edge "marked" the collapse of the 2012 understandings.  Not, of course, the many rockets fired off in-between or the tunnels we now know were being dug for an eventual invasion of Israel.


B.  Ah, but it was undermined.  By whom?


C.  First there was an Israeli "intensification" and then there is a "launching" of rockets from Gaza.  Isn't that sentence structure chronologically wrong?

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