#CAMPAIGN 4 #GAZA | HELP GAZA TO BEAT THE WATER CRISIS!

“Access to safe water is a fundamental human need & therefore a basic human right.” ~Kofi Annan Sept 2, 2104 | By occpal “Occupied Palestine”-weblog is endorsing the campaign by 3 engineers from Gaza to build a RO desalination plant. You can Help the people of Gaza to find their dignified life, peacefully, and in […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | There’s a shortage of clean water especially at UN-run schools in Gaza

PressTV | Published on Aug 31, 2014 Palestinian health officials say there’s a shortage of clean water especially at UN-run schools where nearly 22-thousand refugees are sheltering. They say various diseases are spreading among the refugee population due to the lack of water and hygiene. UN agencies are warning that the humanitarian situation is getting […]

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Wounded Gazans struggle to find treatment after war

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 14:49 GAZA CITY (AFP) — Still in shock weeks after an Israeli shell blast shredded his arm and killed four members of his family, Ahmed Ayyad is one of many wounded Palestinians in Gaza now needing long-term care. But many of the organizations charged with rehabilitating Palestinians like him […]

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Deliberate medical negligence: Palestinian prisoner patients launch distress signal

[ PIC 20/08/2014 – 12:03 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority has been dragging its feet vis-à-vis Palestinian prisoner patients held in al-Ramla prison clinic, denying them urgent medical check-ups and needed therapy. Prisoner Riyadh al-Amour, serving 11 back-to-back life sentences, said following a visit paid by lawyers at the Palestinian Prisoner Society: […]

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40-year-old prisoner suffers of medical negligence in Israel prison

Archive Al Ray Agencies | Nov 24 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – 40-year-old prisoner, Sherif Abu Wadei suffers from a bad health conditions ; Israel Prison Service (IPS) procrastinates  in providing the necessary  medical treatment for him, the Association of Palestinian prisoners, Hossam , reported on Sunday. Abu Wadei ,  detained in Israel’s Nafha prison,  suffered […]

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@BBC denies reality of how siege hurts healthcare in Gaza

Amena Saleem | 11/22/2013 – 19:08 | Electronic Intifada In April this year, the BBC’s Director-General Tony Hall gave assurances to members of Parliament about the BBC’s impartiality when covering Palestine. He also told MPs that the BBC’s complaints process, headed by the BBC Trust, provides adequate checks and balances. However, some of the BBC’s […]

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Palestinian prisoners threaten to escalate protests against medical neglect

[ PIC 18/11/2013 – 08:04 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoners, including patients, in Israeli jails threatened to take protest steps soon to pressure the Israeli prison authority to end its medical neglect policy against them. Ragheb Abu Dyak, head of the popular committee for the support of prisoners in Jenin city, said in […]

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#StopIsrael | Cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner’s health deteriorates

Al Ray Agencies | Nov 17, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – The Head of the Prisoners National Movement said that ill prisoner Yosri al-Masri,30, from Deir al-Balah, who suffers from thyroid cancer, returned to Nafha Prison after having a surgery to treat cancer without eradicating it. “The prisoner spent few days after the surgery in Muraj […]

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No Vaccine but Polio for Palestine!

Nov 9, 2013 by occpal And Yes! Media is buzzing again about the altruistic ‘aid’ of this world and contribution to health of kids by buzzing media reports about 20 million kids to get polio vaccine after Syria outbreak. (Source) Of course because Europe is at alleged risk. Not in Palestine though. On May 20, […]

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IOA refuses to allow treatment of university lecturer Dr. Abdulsattar Qassem in Jerusalem

[ PIC 05/11/2013 – 10:21 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) refused to allow treatment of Dr. Abdulsattar Qassem, a lecturer of political science at Najah university, in Jerusalem. He said in a terse statement on Monday that the IOA refused to give him permission to enter Jerusalem for medical treatment. He […]

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Hamas (@hamasinfo) : Death of Turabi an Israeli crime

[ PIC 06/11/2013 – 12:39 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Hamas movement held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for the death of captive Hasan Al-Turabi due to its deliberate medical neglect of Palestinian prisoners and the inhuman practices against Turabi. Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday that the “martyrdom of Turabi, 22, is […]

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Family of Jerusalemite captive Da’na appeals to save his life

[ PIC 05/11/2013 – 12:36 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Family of Jerusalemite captive Ali Da’na, 35, appealed to all health institutions and human rights organizations to immediately intervene to save the life of its son, who has been suffering from serious health problems for many years. Ali has been arrested 3 times, the last of […]

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Calls on PA to prosecute Israel for crimes against Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 05/11/2013 – 12:24 PM ] NABLUS, GAZA, (PIC)– Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights strongly denounced the Israeli heinous crime against the martyr Hassan al-Turabi, 22, who was handed over to his family nearly dead after ten months of his arrest. The center called on PA to prosecute the occupation authorities […]

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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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Israeli prison administration refuses to provide treatment for patient captive

[ PIC 27/10/2013 – 06:55 PM ] AL-KHALIL, RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahla, who is detained in Eshel jail and suffers from hepatitis, appealed for providing him with the appropriate treatment . Halahla said: “I am not asking for my release. My only demand is to be given the appropriate medicine for my […]

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