PCHR: Gaza leukemia patients without medicine for 11 months

Ma’an News Agency |  Tuesday 19/11/2013 (updated) 21/11/2013 09:30 Cancer patients and supporters protest the siege of Gaza. (MaanImages/file) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Leukemia patients in the Gaza Strip have been without medicine for more than 11 months leaving them in grave danger of complications and death, according to a report released Sunday by the Palestinian […]

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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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#Gaza | URGENT | Gaza’s Shifa Hospital Calls For Urgent Medical Supplies | REQUEST LIST INCLUDED

NOTE OCCPAL | LIST REQUIRED MEDICAL SUPPLIES SHIFA HOSPITAL  NOTE OCCPAL | LIST REQUIRED MEDICAL SUPPLIES  U.H.W.C – GAZA By Haitham Sabbah | Sabbah Report | Nov 21, 2012 Press Statement 21 November 2012 The Palestinian Ministry of Health condemns in the strongest terms the continued Israeli outrages against the citizenry of Gaza. The death […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | #Israel holding medicine for Gaza at checkpoint

Note by @occpal Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention clearly establish that Israel, as the occupying power, not only has a duty to ensure medical supplies reach hospitals in the OPT, but to ensure and maintain the services of the hospitals too. As High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, other states […]

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MP Masri warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza due to closure of Rafah area

[ PIC 09/08/2012 – 10:45 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas lawmaker Mushir Al-Masri warned on Wednesday that the closure of Rafah border crossing and tunnels would cause a serious humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. In a press statement, Masri said the recent terrorist attack on Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai clearly bear Israeli hallmarks. […]

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#GazaCrisis | Sawasiya center to prosecute PA health ministry for causing Gaza drug crisis

[ PIC 27/06/2012 – 05:09 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Sawasiya center for human rights said it has prepared a lawsuit against the Palestinian authority health ministry in Ramallah for its direct responsibility for the pharmaceutical crisis plaguing the health sector in the Gaza Strip. In a press release, Sawasiya affirmed that it had conducted investigation […]

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PA ministry sends medicine to Gaza

Maan News Agency | June 13, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health on Wednesday sent medicine and medical equipment to the Gaza Strip, a ministry spokesman said. Omar al-Nasr said in a statement that Leukemia medication and coagulant drugs were among 14 types of medication sent to Gaza, as well as […]

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VIDEO | Gaza health crisis deteriorating | #IsraelKills by Deprivation

PressTV | April 15, 2012 The health situation in Gaza has once again reached catastrophic levels as hospitals face severe shortages in medicines and hospital supplies. According to health officials in Gaza, nearly 500 patients have died due to lack of medicines or their inability to seek treatment outside the blockaded territory since the beginning […]

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Ministry of Health: Unprecedented low level of medicines in Gaza stores

[ PIC 14/04/2012 – 02:31 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, the spokesman for the Health Ministry in Gaza, has warned of a new and unprecedented drop in the ministry’s stores of medicine. He said in a press release on Saturday that 180 kinds of medicines and 210 kinds of medical consumables were depleted […]

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Abbas Orders Medicine Sent to Gaza

WAFA | March 10, 2012 RAMALLAH, March 10, 2012 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Saturday instructed Minister of Health Fathi Abu Mughli to immediately dispatch medicine to Gaza to meet needs in light of the continuous strikes on the Gaza Strip and the high number of dead and wounded, according to a statement issued by […]

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Hospitals in Gaza running out of medical supplies (Again!)

Palestinian patients undergo a dialysis treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on February 15, 2012. PressTV | Fri Mar 9, 2012 9:59AM GMT Infant incubators, dialysis machines, hematology laboratories, cardiac catheterization units, ICUs, in addition to diagnostic radiology units will be prone to the drug deficiency.” Ashraf al-Qader, director of Public Relations and Information […]

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Gaza health ministry: Hospital stock severely depleted

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity | Water | Communication [PIC 08/03/2012 – 09:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of health warned that the pharmaceutical crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has aggravated very badly threatening the lives of all patients, affirming that only 186 types of medicines and […]

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Gaza: Residents deprived of critical medications and medical care

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures 17 Nov 2011 | Medicins sans Frontieres By late September, 36% of necessary supplies were lacking, compared to 25% in 2010. © Theo/Synchro X Health facilities in the Gaza Strip face a serious shortage of drugs and medical supplies. In late September, 36% of […]

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Gazan Thalassemic Children Plead For Life

By Saleh Jadallah | Bernama | Aug 3, 2011 GAZA STRIP, Aug 3 (Bernama) — Palestinian children infected with Thalassemia have called on the international community and human rights organisations to exert pressure on Israel to end its blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007. The Gaza-based ministry of health reported that 75 children are facing […]

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Medicines for Gaza stuck at Israeli crossing

HUMANRIGHTS STOP WHERE GAZA BORDER STARTS…. Published today (updated) 24/06/2011 13:55 Palestinian pharmacist during their work in Rafah Refugee Camp in the southern Gaza Strip April 25, 2006. [MaanImages/Hatem Omar] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Gaza’s medicine shortage has reached “alarming proportions,” international aid group Oxfam said Friday, quoting medical officials saying that drugs were held up […]

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