Lawyer: Sick prisoner Ahmad Saed al-Damouni from Gaza stops taking medication

Maan News Agency | April 21, 2013   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A sick prisoner on Sunday stopped taking medication in protest against Israeli medical negligence, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs. Ahmad Saed al-Damouni, 43, from the Gaza Strip, has been held in Ashkelon jail since 1994. He is sentenced […]

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Palestinian prisoners in the Naqab refuse to take medication

[ PIC 04/04/2013 – 09:31 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Studies confirmed that the patient prisoners in the Negev desert prison announced to stop taking their medicines on Wednesday evening. Kaher Abu Kamal, spokesman for the center in the West Bank, said in a statement on Thursday that the prisoners took […]

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ICRC warns of shortage in medicine as Israeli aggression continued

[ PIC 21/11/2012 – 07:16 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The International Committee of the Red Cross has expressed concern at a possible medicine shortage in Gaza due to the continuing Israeli aggression for the 8th day running. Patrick Gueissaz, head of the ICRC’s sub-delegation in Gaza, said in a press statement on Wednesday that the […]

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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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Hamas prisoners escalate the strike and refuse to take their medication | #PalHunger

[ PIC 28/04/2012 – 10:59 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The protest steps of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s jails escalated in line with their rejection of the Israeli occupation’s oppressive measures against them. According to a statement issued by Hamas prisoners in the desert prison Negev on Friday, the administrative detainees in section […]

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A Must Read – “Surviving Israeli jail: Torture, humiliation and giving birth” | #PalHunger

Published: 27 April, 2012, 19:29 | RT News Hamas militants stage a mock prison break during a rally, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2012 (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)   Thousands of Palestinians are on hunger strike in Israeli prisons – for over a […]

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A European Aid Convoy Sorry for the Gaza Afflicted

AL RESALAH FEB 28 2012 Gaza, (Alresalah.ps)–The European aid convoy “Loyalty to Palestine” visited Monday morning the compound of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The undersecretary of the ministry of health Hassan Khalaf and many department heads received the visiting convoy. The convoy, which arrived in Gaza on Sunday evening, includes about eighty of solidarity activists […]

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VIDEO | Lack of medication in Gaza

PressTV – Broadcast Date: 05 Feb. 2012 Palestinian protesters pelted the car taking United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon into Gaza with shoes sticks and stones, last week. The incident took place in Erez crossing which is the main entrance to the beleaguered strip from Israel. There is a general perception that the siege of […]

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Ministry: Gaza running out of medicine

Maan News Agency | Aug 21, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are running out of medicine, a spokesman for the Hamas health ministry warned Sunday. Ashraf Al-Qudra said hospitals stores had already run out 150 medicines and 160 types of medical equipment. The shortages were particularly critical in light of […]

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The crisis of medicines reached a grave level

04-08-2011,13:45 Al Qassam website– Gaza- senior health official warned that the crisis of medicines and medical consumables have reached a dangerous level threatening the lives of patients in Gaza hospitals and became much worse than the situation that preceded the Israeli war. Information director at the Palestinian health ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra told a news conference […]

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Prison-prescribed medication worsens prisoner’s condition

[ 11/07/2011 – 04:56 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The family of Naeem Shahda Halaika, a Palestinian currently detained at the Israeli Negev prison, has called on the Red Cross and other rights groups to help see the prisoner gets medical attention after he was afflicted with a massive blood clot in his stomach after taking […]

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1500 sick Palestinian detainees refuse to take medicine in protest step

[ 21/06/2011 – 09:42 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian human rights sources said that 1500 Palestinian sick detainees in Israeli occupation jails would not take their medication or go to clinics on Tuesday in solidarity with a comrade on hunger strike. The sources said that Atef Wreidat has been on hunger strike for two weeks […]

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Palestinian infant close to death as Israel denies him medication

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity | Water | Communication Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:50| Samar Mohaisen| Palestine Telegraph (This post is not reflecting the current situation, June 2012, for updates see below this article) Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)- Palestinian medical sources announced that Israeli authorities banned an infant in Gaza […]

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Palestinian prisoners in Negev complain of their incarceration conditions

[ 24/10/2010 – 11:14 AM ]   NEGEV, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli desert prison Negev have complained of their incarceration conditions after the Israeli prison administration tightened its repressive measures against them. In a message leaked out of jail on Saturday, the prisoners said that the administration serves them poor quantity meals and […]

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