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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Doctors Start Work as UN Estimates 400,000 Gaza Children Need Psychological Care

Newsweek | Filed: 8/15/14 at 2:10 PM Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling, receives psychological care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City August 14, 2014. Mohammed Salem/Reuters   In a ward at Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small […]

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28 year old Palestinian prisoner Salem Kassab loses sight due to medical neglect

[ PIC 28/10/2013 – 04:34 PM ] JENIN, GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) in Jenin, warned on Sunday of the deterioration of the health status of prisoner Salem Kassab, aged 28 from the village of Kafrdan west of Jenin, who lost sight in one of his eyes. Ragheb Abu Diak, Secretary of the PPS, […]

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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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Zionist settlers puncture 28 Palestinian cars in Occupied Jerusalem

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 12:52 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A group of fanatic Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian cars in Abu Gush area west of occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday and sprayed racist graffiti on walls. A statement for the Israeli police spokeswoman said that unknown assailants punctured the tires of 28 cars owned by Arabs […]

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WHO: Israeli Permit Approval for Gaza Patients Lowest in Two Years

WAFA | May 23, 2013 JERUSALEM, May 23, 2013 (WAFA) – Israeli permit approval rate for Gaza patients during April reached 83%, the lowest since January 2011, reflecting a dramatic increase in delays in responding to applications, said the World Health Organization (WHO) in its monthly report on referral of patients from the Gaza Strip […]

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Israel Asks Detainees To Pay For Their Medical Expenses

Al Qassam Website | May 7, 2013 Palestine – The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Monday that the Israeli Prison Authority is demanding Palestinian political prisoners to pay for their own medical expenses, and refused to provide them with the needed medical equipment or medications. The Ministry denounced the Israeli decision and said that Israel, […]

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VIDEO | Israel blackmailing Palestinians into working as spies

  Published on Feb 13, 2013 To put more pressure on besieged Palestinians, Israel has increased its pressure on patients seeking medical treatment outside of the enclave. Patients who require medical treatment abroad are systemically interrogated and blackmailed into working as spies for Tel-Aviv in turn for them to be granted exit permits. Several Gazan […]

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IPS refuses to hospitalize Palestinian prisoner despite bad health | @PHR_IL @ICRC @Ufreenetwork @WHO

[ PIC 11/02/2013 – 09:11 PM ] TOBAS, (PIC)– Jawad Bulous, a lawyer, has charged the Israeli prison service (IPS) with deliberately ignoring the bad health condition of prisoner Mohammed Al-Taj. The lawyer said in a press release on Monday that the health condition of Taj, who is serving a 16-year sentence, was worsening and […]

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A Palestinian prisoner transferred to the hospital in serious condition

Al Qassam Website | Sept 11, 2012 11-09-2012,09:05Al Qassam website- Gaza- Palestinian human rights sources reported that the occupation authorities transferred the prisoner Mohammad Rimawi to Hadassah hospital following deterioration in his health condition. Wa’ed association for prisoners and ex-prisoners pointed in a press statement that the prisoner Mohammad Rimawi, who was held in Nafha […]

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Deliberate medical neglect: Prisoner from Tammun suffering serious health condition

[ PIC 31/07/2012 – 12:38 PM ] TUBAS, (PIC)– A human rights center warned of a serious deterioration in the health condition of prisoner Abdul Salam Abdul Rahim Bani Ouda from Tammun town in Tubas, who was sentenced to 30 years, amid a deliberate neglect to his treatment by the Israeli Prison Service. Center for […]

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Deliberate Medical Neglect | A prisoner in Gilboa suffering from Mediterranean Fever

[ PIC 22/06/2012 – 09:50 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC) — The prisoner Alaa Adib Abdul-Jabbar Shuraitah was suffering from symptoms of Familial Mediterranean Fever, Tadamon Foundation for Human Rights revealed. According to Ahmed Betawi, a researcher at Tadamon Foundation, the prisoner Shuraitah (33 years) has been suffering from Familial Mediterranean fever that is causing him […]

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13 cancer patients held in Israeli occupation jails deprived of proper medical care

[ PIC 16/06/2012 – 10:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said that 13 prisoners in the Israeli jails suffer from different forms of cancer and are in real danger due to the Israeli prison service’s disregard of their condition. The Center’s spokesman, Riad Ashkar, said in a statement on Friday, […]

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Urgent: Humanitarian tragedy in Gaza within a week

[ PIC 18/03/2012 – 07:59 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Mahmoud Al-Shawwa, the head of the union of petrol and gas companies in Gaza, has warned of a humanitarian tragedy in the Gaza Strip in the event no petrol was allowed into it within one week. He said in a press release on Sunday that all […]

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Hospitals in Gaza running out of medical supplies (Again!)

Palestinian patients undergo a dialysis treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on February 15, 2012. PressTV | Fri Mar 9, 2012 9:59AM GMT Infant incubators, dialysis machines, hematology laboratories, cardiac catheterization units, ICUs, in addition to diagnostic radiology units will be prone to the drug deficiency.” Ashraf al-Qader, director of Public Relations and Information […]

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