100’s of truckloads of goods, Infant formula, medicine stranded at Gaza crossing

Maan News Agency | Apr 29, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hundreds of truckloads of food and goods destined for Gaza remained stranded Monday on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the Popular Front Against the Siege said. Among the goods are infant formula, medicine, and goods destined for UNRWA, as well as […]

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Resheq: Medical and food supplies are still denied access to Yarmouk camp

[ PIC 02/01/2013 – 01:04 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq said the Syrian regime forces still prevent for the 10th day the access of medical and food supplies the Palestinian refugee camp Al-Yarmouk in Damascus. In a press statement to Quds Press on Tuesday, Resheq affirmed that Al-Yarmouk refugee […]

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Israel arrests two Palestinian sisters Yasmina & Zeina Al-Tamimi on returning from the Ukraine

[ 12/06/2012 – 05:01 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested two Palestinian students on their return from the Ukraine where they studied medicine, their father said. Najib Al-Tamimi, the father, told Quds Press on Tuesday that his daughters Yasmina, 22, and Zeina, 23, had completed their studies in medicine in the Ukraine […]

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Health ministry: Gaza lacks 260 types of medicine

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication Maan News Agency | Dec 3, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that there is a medical crisis in the coastal enclave, with over 260 types of medicines unavailable to residents. On Saturday, […]

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Gaza convoy foils Israeli blockade

Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:17AM GMT Interview with Sheikh Walid El Saadi, leader of the Africa to Gaza Aid Convoy, from Gaza The Africa to Gaza Aid Convoy has bypassed the Israeli blockade and reached the Gaza Strip where they are giving aid and supplies to the oppressed Palestinians. In an exclusive interview with Press […]

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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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European aid from Miles of Smiles Mission routed through Egypt to Gaza

Jun 19, 2011, 15:14 GMT| – Monsters and Critics Al-Arish, Egypt – Members of a European humanitarian aid mission carried supplies into the blockaded Gaza Strip via Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Sunday.The aid, brought by the Miles of Smiles ship, was unloaded at al-Arish port, 45 kilometres from the Rafah border crossing, port director Gamal Abdul-Maqsoud […]

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