In partnership with the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the ICRC has provided some 32,000 people whose houses were fully or partially destroyed during the conflict with basic household and hygiene items, as well as with plastic sheeting to repair shattered windows.
Between January and October 2009, the ICRC assisted more than 2,300 unemployed people with 15,000 dependents by enrolling them in cash-for-work activities and in various programmes involving land reclamation, greenhouse refurbishment and road upgrades. The plants have improved sanitation for some 320,000 people. The ICRC has also upgraded storm sewer networks in both areas, which should prevent or mitigate the flooding of residential neighbourhoods during winter.
The ICRC has provided about 230 tons of drugs and disposables to eight government hospitals in Gaza. It has also continued to provide support for the Artificial Limb and Polio Centre in Gaza City, where about 1,500 patients, including nearly 700 amputees, have received treatment.
