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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211; Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:29AM</div>
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<div><strong>The  UN has only provided 52 percent of its target for humanitarian aid to  Palestine in 2010, making it the largest shortfall since the plan  started in 2003. </strong></div>
<p>Maxwell Gaylard, UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied  Palestinian territories, said the &#8220;disappointing figure&#8221; for 2010 is  mainly due to the global economic crisis as well as the natural  disasters in Pakistan and Haiti.</p>
<p>The plan, called the Consolidated Appeals Process, only managed to raise $259.2 million for Palestinians, <em>The Jerusalem Post</em> reported on Thursday.</p>
<p>In 2003, the UN launched an appeal to the member states and  international organizations to provide aid to Palestinians in the  occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>According to Gaylard&#8217;s office, donors say some of the projects such  as education, agriculture and sanitation cannot be deemed as emergency  items.</p>
<p>Palestine was the United Nations&#8217; sixth most under-funded appeal in 2010, the office said.</p>
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