South African medical team arrives in Gaza

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 31, 2014 | 17:33 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A South African medical team arrived in Gaza on Sunday to assist in the treatment of thousands of Palestinians injured in Israel’s 51-day assault on the Strip. In a news conference at al-Shifa hospital, the director of the Gift of the Givers […]

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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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Deliberate medical neglect: 40 Palestinians in Megiddo jail suffer extremely tragic conditions

Prisoner Mahmoud Hussein is paralysed and needs special medical care [ PIC 26/08/2014 – 03:26 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner society said 40 prisoners detained in section 10 of Megiddo jail suffer from very tragic incarceration conditions. The lawyer of the society revealed, following a visit to the prison, that the Megiddo jailers […]

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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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#GazaUnderAttack | Gaza: Operation Medical Resupply

A baby in a Gaza neo-natal unit. Zero stock medicines impact on all in Gaza – including newborn babies Gaza: Operation Medical Resupply Medical Aid for Palestinians WebsiteAs the ongoing airstrikes result in increasing numbers injuries and casualties, the provision of essential medicines and supplies becomes ever more important.We have been able to provide essential medicines. […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Press Release | Medical facilities, personnel a red line, says Gaza MOH

Press Release Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine Medical Facilities and personnel are a red line The Ministry of Health Gaza strongly condemns two Israeli attacks on Gazan medical facilities and personnel in the last 24 hours. The first resulted in the destruction of Al Durrah Children’s Hospital in Gaza City last night. A two year-old […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Medics: Israel war causes human catastrophe in Gaza

A wounded Palestinian boy, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike, is wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City. PressTV | July 19, 2014 Palestinian doctors have warned of a catastrophic situation in the besieged Gaza Strip due to shortage of basic healthcare facilities and medical supplies. Medical officials in Gaza told a Press TV […]

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#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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Palestinian prisoners threaten to escalate protests against medical neglect

[ PIC 18/11/2013 – 08:04 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoners, including patients, in Israeli jails threatened to take protest steps soon to pressure the Israeli prison authority to end its medical neglect policy against them. Ragheb Abu Dyak, head of the popular committee for the support of prisoners in Jenin city, said in […]

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IOA refuses to allow treatment of university lecturer Dr. Abdulsattar Qassem in Jerusalem

[ PIC 05/11/2013 – 10:21 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) refused to allow treatment of Dr. Abdulsattar Qassem, a lecturer of political science at Najah university, in Jerusalem. He said in a terse statement on Monday that the IOA refused to give him permission to enter Jerusalem for medical treatment. He […]

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Calls on PA to prosecute Israel for crimes against Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 05/11/2013 – 12:24 PM ] NABLUS, GAZA, (PIC)– Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights strongly denounced the Israeli heinous crime against the martyr Hassan al-Turabi, 22, who was handed over to his family nearly dead after ten months of his arrest. The center called on PA to prosecute the occupation authorities […]

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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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Israeli doctors diagnose prisoners’ illnesses through “guessing” | @UNOCHA @ICRC @Amnesty @PHR_IL

[ PIC 08/10/2013 – 03:43 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoner, held in Raymond prison, stated that the Israeli doctors diagnose prisoners’ illnesses through “guessing” without conducting medical tests. The prisoner Kamanji told Palestine center for prisoners’ studies that the Israeli doctors provide the patient prisoners with the wrong medication causing them health deterioration. The […]

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Palestinian detainee Al-Shawamrah in critical condition

Al Ray Agencies | Oct 7, 2013 Hebron , ALRAY- The Palestinian detainee Naeem Al-Shawamrah, 43, from Hebron, is in a serious condition after he was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, according to his family. Al-Shawamrah, a father to two, served 19 years in the Israeli jail and was sentenced to life for  allegedly “involving […]

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Health minister: The medical supplies in Gaza are declining

[ PIC 07/10/2013 – 12:48 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of health Mufid Al-Mekhalalati said that the balance of medicines and medical disposables in hospitals and pharmacies are in constant decline due to the closure of the Rafah border crossing. In a news conference on Sunday, Mekhalalati noted that 30 percent of the medicines […]

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