Electricity outage has serious impacts on Health: Minister of Health

Minister of Health, Mufeed al- Makhllaty Al Ray Agencies | Nov 4, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – ” Health and humanitarian conditions in Gaza are  at risk due to electricity outage  across the Gaza Strip,” Minister of Health,  Mufeed al- Makhllaty warned on Monday. He said in a press statement   that the stop of  functioning of […]

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Hundreds of Gazan kidney patients face death

[ PIC 26/10/2013 – 03:32 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza Strip warned on Saturday that hundreds of kidney failure patients were in danger of death due to the acute shortage in medicines and other consumables used in the dialysis process. For his part, director of kidney department in the Shifa […]

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Dearth of Egypt fuel threatens Gaza’s farmlands

Gaza’s ongoing electricity crisis has also worsened since the smuggling tunnels stopped operating, depriving the strip’s roughly 1.7 million inhabitants of badly-needed Egyptian fuel World Bulletin/News Desk | Oct 22, 2013 The tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants that 52-year-old Gazan farmer Hassan Abd Rabo has been growing in his 9,000-square-meter farm are becoming drier, as yellow […]

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Al-Rafati: We face the Israeli starvation policy through “economy of resistance”

[ PIC 07/10/2013 – 11:28 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Minister of Economy in Gaza, Alaa Al-Rafati, stated that the current rate of needed materials entering through Karem crossing is only 30% due to the Israeli starvation policy practiced against the besieged strip. During a conference held on Sunday, the minister said that the economic […]

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Israeli Trap to Arrests Palestinian Patient ~ by @KawtherSalam

Kawther Salam | Sept 26, 2013 طبيب غزي يترأس مؤتمر إتحاد الأطباء العرب في دورته  التاسعة والعشرين في ألمانيا Israeli forces arrested 14 Palestinians at Beit Hanoun crossing, the so-called “Erez” since the beginning of 2013. The Israeli forces exploit need of Palestinians to travel and use crossings as traps, Al Mezan for human rights […]

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Public health sector in Gaza faces disaster under tightened siege

Intensive care medical units such as this one at the Al-Emarati Hospital in Gaza face significant cuts to their power and medical supplies Middle East Monitor | Sept 21, 2013 The Minister of Health in Gaza has urged the international community to put pressure on Israel and Egypt to lift the siege and allow medicines, […]

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LIVE BLOG | Gaza: Total siege imposed by Israel and Egypt causing 3 dead

Continuously updated | All related news concerning the siege on Gaza below the article by IRIN BREAKING NEWS Sept 28, 2013 2nd victim of the siege: MOI reported medial resources said newborn Mohamed al- Mashharawi  Friday at night at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing after his mother waited long without being allowed […]

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Egyptian official is happy that Gaza electricity plant stopped working

Middle East Monitor | Sept 18, 2013 Former Egyptian Electricity Minister Osama Kamal has appeared happy on a local Egyptian television network, rejoicing: “We succeeded in closing the only electricity plant in Gaza.” Speaking to a talk show on Egyptian Al-Hayat TV, Kamal attributed the news to “the great [and] successful efforts of the Egyptian […]

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Israel exploits Egypt turmoil to increase attacks on Gaza farmers ~ by @jncatron

Israel continues to violate the terms of a 2012 ceasefire by attacking farmers in Gaza. (Eyad Al Baba / APA images)   18th September 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | ISM Palestine |  Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Farming in the Gaza Strip’s “buffer zone” is hazardous under the best circumstances. Israeli troops routinely shoot live ammunition […]

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US equipment is being used to detect and demolish Gaza tunnels | #OpenRafahBorder

Middle East Monitor | Sept 15, 2013 Intelligence sources have revealed that the US Corps of Engineers has given a $10 million contract to Raytheon Technologies Company to detect the tunnels underneath the Egypt-Palestine border.   The tunnels have been used to import essential goods to the besieged Gaza Strip and are now being destroyed […]

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MP Bahar calls on Egypt to open Rafah crossing permanently

[ PIC 02/09/2013 – 03:51 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has called on the Egyptian authorities to stop its campaign of demolishing the border tunnels which are used to bring vital supplies into the besieged Gaza Strip. Dr. Ahmed Bahar, first deputy chairman of the PLC, said in a press conference […]

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Sewage Hits drinking water in the refugee Camp of Shati

DRAH | Sept 2, 2013 Gaza, (DRAH.ps) — The Palestinian refugees have been suffering since 65 years, when the Palestinians were plagued with NAKBA. Residents of the Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza, particularly people of the area of “Block 4” complained recently of pollution of drinking water with sewage. They also suffer […]

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Gaza crisis deepens as Egypt closes border and tunnels

Al Ray Agencies | Sept 2, 2013   Gaza, Alray – Since the military coup took power in Egypt on 3 July the crisis engulfing the Gaza Strip has deepened following the closure of the Rafah Border Crossing and many of the lifeline tunnels by the Egyptian coup authorities. Fuel supplies in particular are being […]

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14 prisoners in serious condition due to severe medical negligence in Israel’s Ramlah Prison

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 18, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Riad Amour, the  representative of the ill prisoners in Ramlah prison hospital, said that about 14 Palestinian  prisoners suffer from medical negligence and bad treatment in Ramlah prison hospital. Lawyer of the Prisoners Ministry in Ramallah Hanan El-Khatib said in a press release on Saturday […]

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Israeli soldiers deny medical help to boy bitten by snake

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 12, 2013 (updated) NABLUS (Ma’an) — A young boy bitten by a snake in Nablus on Sunday was refused medical attention by Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint, the boy’s father said. Tareq Abu Aoun told Ma’an that his son Muhammad was bitten by the snake near the Hamra checkpoint in […]

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