Wheelchair bound Palestinian 24 days in Israeli detention center denied right to lawyer visits and medical check-ups

[ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:25 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority has been holding disabled Palestinian detainee Shadi Daraghma, who is confined to a wheelchair, in al-Mascoubiya detention center for 24 uninterrupted days, denying him the right to lawyer visits and to urgent medical check-ups , the Palestinian Prisoner Society revealed on Sunday. […]

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Gaza healthcare services on verge of collapse | #GazaUnderAttack

11-07-2014,10:19 Al Qassam website  (Agencies) – The World Health Organization (WHO) says health services are on the verge of collapse in the besieged Gaza Strip amid escalating Israeli attacks.   The UN health agency said on Thursday that Gaza has faced severe shortages in medicines and fuel for hospital generators.   “The recent escalation of […]

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VIDEO | Save the Children: Access to Quality Health Care in the Gaza Strip

  Published on Oct 28, 2013 With its Access to Quality Health Care project Save the Children is providing health services for the poorest children and their families in the Gaza strip. We are working hard to improve child health and nutrition for a total of 3200 children. We are working with partners to improve […]

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Eye on Palestine – This is occupation: Deprivation of Healthcare

Sept 26, 2013 via Ahmad A Mesleh | Eye on Palestine Qamar Shehada, a 6 months girl, on a hospital bed at the intensive care unit, in Jerusalem on Sept. 17, 2013. Israeli authorities prevented Shehada’s family to enter Jerusalem under the pretext of illegal stay in the Palestinian Authority territory while she suffering from […]

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Dutch neighborhood in Khan Younis complains the lack of UNRWA services

[ PIC 15/08/2012 – 01:57 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC) — The Dutch neighborhood, which was established by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Khan Younis area, south of the Gaza Strip, has recently witnessed protests due to the lack of the minimum basic environmental and health services. The UNRWA refused to provide […]

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Medical negligence: Designed to Kill | Human rights violations in Ramla prison hospital

[ PIC 11/07/2012 – 09:10 AM ] GAZA,(PIC)– Waed Society for Captives and ex-captives warned of the seriousness of the sick Palestinian prisoners’ disastrous situation in occupation prisons, and in Ramle prison hospital in particular. Waed considered, in a press release on Wednesday, the so-called Ramla prison hospital as an isolation section in which Palestinian […]

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Gaza Health crisis worsening

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 04:18 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr Ashraf Kodra, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, warned of the serious health situation in Gaza due to lack of medicines in the ministry’s warehouses, pointing out that 202 types of medicines considered essential are currently out of stock in the Gaza Strip such as drug protocols […]

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Israel set to destroy European-funded solar energy project

MEMO Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:10 Rateb Jabour added that if the demolition threat goes ahead it will return 2,300 Palestinians to a life without a modern power source. The Israeli occupation authorities have issued notices of their intention to demolish a solar energy project which provides the only source of electricity for a number […]

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Beit Jala Resident Fadi Barham: “The Government Doesn’t Care about Disabled People”

PNN FEB 27 2012 By Edra Arb/ for PNN Three years ago Fadi Barham was in an accident and lost his ability to walk. He fell 12 meters down a steep slope near his home and as a result, severely injured his back. If Fadi had received immediate medical attention, he may still be able […]

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Under siege, life on the Gaza Strip’s a daily fight for survival

Mel Frykberg | New Age Online | Feb 27 2012 Israel’s crippling siege of the Gaza Strip prevents many vital goods from entering the coastal enclave, as well as preventing the 1.5mn inhabitants from rebuilding their infrastructure and economy, which had been severely destroyed following Israel’s devastating war on the territory from December 2008 to […]

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Gaza: urgent fuel supplies for hospitals – Reuters AlertNet

Gaza: urgent fuel supplies for hospitals Reuters AlertNet 23 Feb 2012 00:00 Source: member // International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – Switzerland “The lack of fuel restricts the functioning of vital public services, especially hospitals,” said Irfan Sulejmani, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Gaza. “Without these emergency supplies, the treatment of […]

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ICRC supplies fuel to Gaza Strip to ease crisis

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 23 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday supplied 150,000 liters of fuel to the ministry of health in the Gaza Strip. “The lack of fuel restricts the functioning of vital public services, especially hospitals,” Irfan Sulejmani, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in […]

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Gaza Gripped by Crisis – by Stephen Lendman

INDYBAY FEB 22 2012Punishing years under siege, Cast Lead’s devastation, and regular IDF air, land and sea attacks took a terrible toll on Gazans physically, economically and emotionally. In 2010, Doctors Without Borders (Medicine Sans Frontiers) said over half of children under age 12 need mental health help. Moreover, one-third of cases are severe. Gaza […]

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Egypt to provide badly needed electricity to Gaza

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 AL Akhbar Egypt is to provide 22 megawatts of electricity to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, where the sole power plant has shut down after running out of fuel, the electricity minister said on Tuesday. Egypt “will begin boosting the Gaza Strip with around 22 megawatts of electricity at the start of […]

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Egypt to Supply Gaza with Power

WAFA FEBR 20 2011 RAMALLAH, February 20, 2012 (WAFA) – Egypt agreed Monday to supply the Gaza Strip with 5 megawatt of power starting next week in the first stage of providing power to the coastal enclave to solve its electricity crisis, according to an official. Chairman of the Palestinian Energy Authority Omar Kittaneh told […]

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