Important News
- Weather: Partially cloudy to clear conditions, slight rise in temperature
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- Occupation forces storm Jenin-area tow, destroy homes
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- Israeli forces raid Tubas-area village, storm homes, and detain young men
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- Israeli forces detain woman and assault man during raid in Nablus
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- Al-Aqsa Mosque reopens: 3000 Palestinians perform prayers after 40 days of Israeli closure
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- Colonists storm Jerusalem's Aqsa Mosque amid extension of raid permitted hours
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- Israel forces Jerusalemite man to demolish his own home
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- Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces near Tubas
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- Seven killed, others wounded, in Israeli bombing on town in southern Lebanon
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- International agencies warn of growing food insecurity due to war
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- Young man and girl killed by Israeli fire in Gaza's Khan Younis and Beit Lahia
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- Gaza death toll from Israel's deadly aggression surpasses 72,317
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- Presidency slams Israel's plan to construct 34 colonial outposts in the West Bank
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- Israeli forces raid village south of Jenin, and interrogate several young men
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- Israeli forces uproot dozens of olive trees near Bethlehem
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- Colonists fence off land adjacent to Palestinian tents in the northern Jordan Valley
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Fayyad: Unity Government in Need of €1 Billion
BRUSSELS, April 11, 2007, (WAFA)- Minister of Finance, Salam Fayyad, said Wednesday that the new national unity government is in need of more than $1 billion in international aid this year to avert a "devastating" humanitarian crisis.
"We are looking for external support to bridge a gap of nearly 1 billion euros [$1.34 billion] for 2007," Fayyad told a joint news conference with the EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, in Brussels.
Ferrero-Waldner, promised technical assistance to enable his ministry to receive aid.
Fayyad told reporters yesterday, in Ramallah, that he would launch a tour in the EU countries as an attempt to end the economic crisis the Palestinian people and PNA have been facing a year ago.
S.A.S. (P 18:35) (GMT 15:35)
