Tag Archives: deprivation

#GazaUnderAttack | Gaza running out of medical supplies, as Israeli bombing continues

Irin News | July 15, 2014 Photo: Ahmed Dalloul/IRIN Gaza under attack once again (file photo from 2012) GAZA/RAFAH, 14 July 2014 (IRIN) – As Israel continues to bomb hundreds of targets in the Gaza Strip, hospitals are facing a shortage of medical supplies. Pre-existing shortages are being exacerbated by heightened need and by the […]

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VIDEO | Iran’s president (@HassanRouhani) speech over Geneva agreement

What Netanyahu when he drew his Bomb September 27, 2012 by occpal | Last Update: Oct 16, 2012 Although the red marker was of impressive size, this was quite a “shitty”  result US  taxpayers get’s in return for it’s 30 Billion US taxdollars in “aid” to fund Israel’s arsenal of (nuclear) weaponry and warfare. Aside […]

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URGENT | Gaza Power Plant Forced off affecting lives of 1.7 Million People

 Friday November 08, 2013 01:57 by Palestinian Center for Human Rights – PCHR | IMEMC Humanitarian Conditions of Approximately 1.7 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Deteriorate The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) expresses deep concern over the deterioration of humanitarian conditions of the civilian population due to the aggravation of the electricity crisis […]

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UFree condemns Israeli medical negligence policy toward prisoners

[ PIC 06/11/2013 – 11:21 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners strongly condemned the Israeli occupation prison authorities for its medical negligence which resulted in the death of Palestinian prisoner Hassan Al Torabi due to his illness with cancer, bringing the number of Palestinian prisoners who died in […]

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VIDEO | Gaza’s sole power plant shuts down due to fuel shortage

Published on Nov 4, 2013 The Energy authority in the Gaza strip say a shortage of fuel has halted the production of electricity across the blockaded coastal enclave. They say this is because the stock of fuel is zero. The situation results from Israel’s destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel into Gaza. The Energy […]

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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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Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations ~ by Prof. James Petras

  by James Petras | November 2nd, 2013 | Dissident Voice Pro-Israel Policy groups such as AIPAC work with unlimited funding to divert US policy in the region (Middle East). – Jack Straw, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party The United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran […]

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Gaza’s Tunnel Economy ~ by @StephenLendman

by Stephen Lendman | Stephen Lendman Weblog | Oct 30, 2013 They’re a vital lifeline. They’re a potential death trap. They’re a bonanza for profiteers. They symbolize Palestinians’ will to survive. It shows their determination to do so against all odds. Decades of Israeli viciousness haven’t deterred them. They’re not about to quit now. Besieged […]

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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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VIDEO | Gazan patients face “endless” suffering due to Israeli blockade | @MSF_USA @ICRC @UN

Published on Oct 27, 2013 Officials in the Gaza Strip say hundreds of patients are at risk of dying due to the Israeli blockade that has been imposed on the besieged enclave for years. Chronic patients fear the worst is still to come amid an international inaction to bring an end to their sufferings. Press […]

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Hamas: The UN, Feltman look at things with one eye

[ PIC 23/10/2013 – 05:40 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement strongly denounced Jeffrey Feltman, the deputy secretary-general of the UN, for considering the tunnel that was discovered lately east of Khan Younis district in Gaza a breach of the truce agreement. Its spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated in a press release on Wednesday that […]

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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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Israel Refuses Entry Of 120 Trucks Into Gaza

Sunday October 20, 2013 13:45 by IMEMC & Agencies Sunday October 20, 2013, the Israeli Authorities refused to allow 120 trucks, loaded with construction material, into the Gaza Strip as they tried to cross through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) terminal between Gaza and Israel. File – PNN Palestinian Legislator, Jamal Al-Khodary, stated that […]

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Zarif (@JZarif): Israel seeks to sabotage Iran nuclear talks

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif PressTV | Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:6AM GMT Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Israel is trying to sabotage the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the six world powers. “The Zionists have the most fear about the success of the talks and, considering their active presence in the […]

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Desperate Gaza man ‘ready to sell daughter’

Ma’an news agency | (updated) 17/10/2013 19:59 (MaanImages) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man from Gaza says he will be forced to offer his 6-year-old daughter for “sale” if he does not receive aid from the government, NGOs, or charitable individuals. Hani al-Hadidi, 33, a construction worker from Gaza’s al-Shajaiya neighborhood, says he is […]

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