The Palestinian Situation

U.N. to resume Gaza aid operations Aljazeera — The UN is to resume delivering aid in Gaza after it said Hamas returned humanitarian supplies it had seized from UN warehouses last week. But the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) said on Monday that the earliest it could resume aid delivery was Wednesday because the Israeli-controlled crossing points would be closed for the country's elections on Tuesday. click to read complete article

Gaza's children traumatized by war, despite ceasefire Haaretz Children in the Gaza Strip continued to suffer and feel insecure despite a ceasefire that has mostly ended three weeks of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas, the UN special envoy for children and armed conflict said Monday. Radihika Coomaraswamy said grave violations of child rights had been committed during the fighting that began on December 27 when Israel Defense Forces launched airstrikes against Hamas militants who had been firing rockets and mortars into southern Israel. click to read complete article

Palestinians Stop Paying Israeli Hospitals New York Times Scores of Palestinian patients being treated in Israeli hospitals, a rare bright spot of coexistence here, are being sent home because the Palestinian Authority has stopped paying for their treatment, partly in anger over the war in Gaza. Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem says that for the past week, no payments have come in and Palestinians whose children it is treating have been instructed by Palestinian health officials to place them in facilities in the West Bank, Jordan or Egypt. click to read complete article