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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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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URGENT ▶ Silent Genocide: Lives of 360 Gaza patients in danger

Al Ray | Aug 6, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday  announced  in a statement that closing Rafah crossing put lives of 360 patients in danger. The statement explained  that these patients have official reference documentation to be treated abroad, but closing Rafah crossing by the Egyptian authorities prevented them […]

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Gaza hospitals face fuel shortage: Health Ministry

A Palestinian man awaits dialysis treatment at the kidney section of Shifa hospital in Gaza. (File photo) PressTV | Sun Aug 4, 2013 6:9AM GMT   The Israeli regime imposed land, aerial, and naval blockade on the Gaza Strip in June 2007 after the democratically elected Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas took over the administration […]

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Al-Taj: Israel released me after being certain of my death

[ PIC 23/04/2013 – 08:52 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The liberated prisoner Mohamed al-Taj stated that his release from Israeli jails came after his serious health deterioration, where the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) were sure that he may die at any moment. During an exclusive interview with PIC reporter at the medical complex in Ramallah […]

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Sick prisoner Ahmed Damoni refuses to take medication

[ PIC 22/04/2013 – 09:35 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli occupation jails, Ahmed Damoni, has been refusing to take his medication for the past five days in protest at the prison administration’s policy of deliberate medical neglect. Mohammed, Ahmed’s brother, told Quds Press on Monday that the lawyer told them of […]

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Haniyeh: All options are open for the liberation of prisoners

[ PIC 17/04/2013 – 08:55 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said that all options are open to the resistance and the people for the liberation of the prisoners from the occupation jails. Haniyeh said during a meeting held by the Legislative Council in Gaza on the anniversary of the Palestinian Prisoner’s […]

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PHR warns of disaster in Israeli jails due to medical neglect

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 02:44 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in the occupied Palestinian territories accused the Israeli medical system inside the prisons of abusing the Palestinian hunger striking prisoners and exercising pressures on them to stop their strike. The human rights organization pointed out in a report issued on Friday […]

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More Medical Neglect: Detainee Muhamad Abu Amsha’s health deteriorating in Israeli jail

Maan News Agency | April 11, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The health of a 49-year-old Palestinian is seriously deteriorating in Israel’s Ashkelon prison, a lawyer for the Ministry of Detainee Affairs said Thursday. Muhamad Abu Amsha has been detained since 2006 and has had several heart attacks since his arrest, the lawyer said in a […]

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Hamas: Israeli crimes will not break the will of Palestinians

[ PIC 07/04/2013 – 04:05 PM ] BEIRUT/ GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas condemned the arbitrary arrests targeting the Palestinian leaders and considered such procedures systematic crime against the Palestinian people. Hamas said in a press statement on Sunday that this Israeli crime will not succeed in dissuading those leaders from continuing to defend their constants and […]

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Calls for saving the lives of Raymond prisoners

[ PIC 07/04/2013 – 11:07 AM ] (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Gilboa, Megiddo and Shatta prisons appealed to international human rights organizations to save Raymond prisoners’ lives in light of the Israeli prison service’s barbaric campaign against them. The IPS has closed Raymond prison for the past two days and prevented the prisoners […]

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Abu Hamdiyeh: A victim of Israel’s criminal callousness ~ by Khalid Amayreh | #OpIsrael

[ PIC 06/04/2013 – 05:37 AM ] Comment by Khalid Amayreh As widely expected, Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh succumbed to his untreated illness in an Israeli jail earlier this week. The Israeli prison authorities, who callously ignored widespread calls coming from many quarters, for his release on humanitarian grounds, had been fully aware of his terminal […]

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Families of prisoners create memorial grave near PA HQ

[ PIC 07/04/2013 – 07:14 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Some families of prisoners and ex-detainees on Saturday afternoon rallied outside the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah city to urge it to immediately act to save the lives of patients and hunger strikers in Israeli jails. During the rally, the protestors established a symbolic […]

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Sayed: Abu Hamdiya was executed and prisoners won’t remain silent

[ PIC 06/04/2013 – 04:40 PM ] TULKAREM, (PIC)– Abbas Sayed, head of the senior leadership committee of Hamas prisoners, revealed that the doctors in the Israeli jails had been giving captive Maysara Abu Hamdiya medicines that had exacerbated his health condition. Sayed confirmed that “the prisoners will not remain silent regarding the murder policy […]

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