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Warning of ‘health disaster’ due to power crisis


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Maan News Agency | Feb 3, 2012

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The health minister in Gaza, Basem Naim, warned Thursday of a health and environmental crisis due to an increase of power cuts and their dangerous implications.

Naim said hospitals and health facilities, subjected to 10-hour power cuts every day, may have to close down some sections like operation rooms and intensive care units which depend completely on electricity.

He added they will have to also shut down central heating although it is winter.

Naim added that depending on generators will not solve the problem, as the quantity of electricity generated from them is not enough to operate medical devices with high efficiency.

He pointed out that the available quantities of diesel to cover the needs of the hospitals will last only for five days, which means they are facing a real threat.

He appealed to the Egyptian leadership to speed up plans to move electricity into the enclave.

Source Maan News Agency



Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention clearly establish that Israel, as the occupying power, not only has a duty to ensure medical supplies reach hospitals in the OPT, but to ensure and maintain the services of the hospitals too. As High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, other states not only have a moral duty but also a legal obligation to ensure Israel abides by its commitments to the protected population of the OPT.

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, As a States Party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel is obliged under Article 24 of the treaty to recognise the right of every child under its effective jurisdiction “to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health care services”.


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VERY IMPORTANT & SHOCKING REPORT ABOUT EFFECTS FOR HEALTH BY POLICIES & DISCRIMINATION OF MEDICAL CARE & ACCESS TO CARE.



While in the horrible holocaust, 1 in 6, so 1 million people died of the Nazi but exactly similar deliberate deprivation, Israel is doing exactly the same to Palestinians. Research (see link below) showed the annual deathrate by violent & passive aggression is about 5000 deaths a year. Called Avoidable mortality or Excess Death.



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How many more dead corpses of Palestinians and their children does the international community need to see in order to act?
How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed?
How long so the world intervenes in this ongoing warcrime and it will be stopped once and for all?