A/HRC/15/51 incurred during Operation Cast Lead had received artificial limbs. At least 70 patients remain in need of prostheses. 79. UNRWA continues to cooperate with local organizations to ensure that patients receive prosthetic devices and artificial limbs, and to provide physiotherapy for persons who sustained injuries during Operation Cast Lead. In addition, UNRWA is providing community-based organizations with financial assistance and technical advice to help them to deliver services to their target groups. For example, UNRWA has provided financial subsidies to cover a portion of operating expenses and educational fees, covered salaries for employees through its job creation programme, and assisted such organizations to provide basic goods to affected families. UNRWA has also delivered psychosocial support, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and assistive devices, and coordinated the travel of 21 persons with disabilities to the United Arab Emirates to allow them to receive medical attention. J. Action by the international community, Israel and Palestinian authorities 80. In paragraph 1977 (a) of its report, the Mission recommended that Israel and representatives of the Palestinian people, and international actors involved in the peace process, should involve Israeli and Palestinian civil society in devising sustainable peace agreements based on respect for international law. The participation of women should be ensured in accordance with Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). 81. As stated in the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to section B of Human Rights Council resolution S-12/1, there are ongoing efforts to involve Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups and women in the peace process, including those led by United Nations bodies. In particular, in June 2010 and in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace convened a two-day high-level colloquium in Spain that brought together Government leaders and experts on women’s human and political rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; they highlighted, inter alia, the critical need to recognize women’s civil society leadership as participants in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ensure that women had a place in all processes to negotiate peace, and take concrete steps to protect women from the specific ways that conflict affects them.40 82. In paragraph 1977 (b) of its report, the Mission recommended that attention should be given to the position of women and steps be taken to ensure their access to compensation, legal assistance and economic security. 83. UNRWA reports that it has provided women whose houses were damaged or demolished as a result of Operation Cast Lead with cash assistance for living expenses and rental fees. Since March 2010, UNRWA has recruited 4,934 women at various UNRWA and non-UNRWA installations. Owing to the general lack of employment opportunities, UNRWA has not been able to offer employment to a large number of unskilled women in Gaza. It has, however, developed a project proposal that seeks to offer employment opportunities to 5,772 unemployed, unskilled women in vulnerable households. 40 16 See “Women share a vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace”, UNIFEM press release, 3 June 2010.