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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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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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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PCHR: Sharawna deportation violates Geneva Conventions

Live Blog | Palestinian hunger striker Ayman Sharawna exiled to Gaza Maan News Agency | March 18, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The deportation to Gaza of hunger-striking prisoner Ayman Sharawna is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, a Palestinian rights group said Monday. Sharawna arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening after signing a […]

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Human Rights Watch: Israel violated laws of war in eight-day attacks on Gaza

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Israeli Army committed clear violations of the laws of war during its recent eight-day attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip. PressTV | Dec 7, 2012 The charges came in a report which the rights organization published on Friday with regards to an Israeli airstrike on a residential building […]

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International Law Legal Intifada by Palestinians Against Israel (Must Read)

Why the US Threatened to Cut Off Aid to the Palestinians if They Pursued and Were Granted Observer Status at the UN An Interview With Professor Francis Boyle By Dennis Bernstein | Sabbah Report | Dec 4, 2012 Francis A. Boyle meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat at the Presidential Compound in Gaza in December […]

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EthnicCleansing of Palestine: Israel plans building two new settlement outposts in West Bank

[ PIC 31/10/2012 – 02:10 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– An Israeli leftist organization has revealed that the Israeli occupation authority was planning to build two new settlement outposts in the West Bank within the few coming months. “Peace Now” movement said in a statement on Wednesday that Jewish settlers had already started to install caravans […]

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EU Mission Heads visit Communities facing Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron – Palestine

Kawther Salam | Aug 9, 2012 A group of European Union Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah visited today communities facing the threat of demolition and displacement in the Southern Hebron Hills. The objective of this field trip was to gain a first-hand impression of developments in the area, to demonstrate concern at the […]

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Israeli human rights lawyer: Levy Report shows occupation is not temporary

+972 Magazine | July 23, 2012 The recent government-sanctioned Levy Report on settlement outposts unmasks the comfortable lie that Israeli government lawyers have told the courts and the rest of the world for decades, namely that Israel’s presence in the West Bank is temporary and measures designating Palestinian land and natural resources for Israeli use […]

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Jewish settlers establish outpost of five houses near Bethlehem

[ PIC 22/07/2012 – 01:56 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– A number of Jewish settlers set up on Saturday evening five prefabricated houses in Umm Hamdeen Hill near Khader town in Bethlehem province. Head of the land defense committee in Khader town Ahmed Salah said about 20 Jewish settlers inhabited the houses in an attempt to […]

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Israeli occupation authority blocks travel for medical aid of liberated prisoner

[ PIC 26/05/2012 – 07:32 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has blocked on Friday the travel of liberated prisoner Thawra Hamur to Jordan for treatment. Local sources said that Thawra, from Jaba’a village south of Jenin city, had presented medical reports to the IOA proving she was in dire need of […]

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#PalHunger | Strike deal ‘does not end administrative detention’

Maan News Agency | May 16, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A deal struck early Tuesday to end the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike will not halt administrative detention, prisoners groups said Wednesday. The document signed by prisoners representatives states that prisoners will halt hunger strikes and “security activity” inside Israeli jails in exchange for Israeli “facilitation” […]

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