Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army ~ by @Amnesty

There has been mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza. © EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN Amnesty International | Aug 7, 2014 “ The harrowing descriptions by ambulance drivers and other medics of the utterly impossible situation in which they have to work, with bombs and bullets […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | 19 Medics Killed, 17 Hospitals Bombed by Israeli Forces Since July 8th

  Sunday August 03, 2014 12:25 by Celine Hagbard – IMEMC News < Since the Israeli military began its assault on the Gaza Strip on July 8th, Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted medics and medical centers who have been working feverishly to treat the over 9,000 people who have been wounded. Ambulance bombed by Israeli […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | WARCRIME | Health Ministry: 25 health institutions demolished in the Israeli aggression

[ PIC 20/07/2014 – 04:29 PM ] GAZA,(PIC)– Palestinian Health Ministry said that 25 health institutions were totally or partially destroyed by Israeli warplanes the last of which was the targeting of Beit Lahiya hospital in northern Gaza Strip. Undersecretary of the ministry Yusuf Abu Rish underlined in a press conference on Saturday that the […]

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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 | Medical sources: Israel using unfamiliar toxic gas against Palestinians in Gaza

The on-going military operation, dubbed by Israel ‘Operation Protective Edge’, has so far resulted in the killing of at least 249 Palestinians and the wounding of 1860 others, according to Palestinian Health Ministry records Middle East Monitor | July 18, 2014 Dozens of Palestinians, including children, suffered from suffocation on Thursday due to inhaling what […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Medics: 5 killed in Gaza airstrikes

Maan News Agency | Nov 17, 2012   GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli warplanes struck sites across the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening with medics saying five Palestinians were killed. Samahar Qidih, 30, was killed when Israeli forces shelled her home east of Khan Younis, south Gaza, medics said. Ali Bin Saed, 25, and Muhammad […]

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Red Crescent Expresses Concern over Israeli Targeting of its Teams‏

WAFA – Febr 15, 2012 RAMALLAH, February 15, 2012 (WAFA) – The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Wednesday expressed the uttermost concern over the Israeli occupation targeting of its medical teams and preventing it from conducting its humanitarian duty, according to a statement issued by PRCS. PRCS condemned the Israeli forces’ targeting of an ambulance, […]

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Eyes in Gaza ~ by Dr. Mads Gilbert & Prof. Dr. Erik Fosse

5 October 2011 | Irsaeli Occupation Archive By Ellen Cantarow, Israeli Occupation Archive – 4 Oct 2011 Review of Eyes in Gaza, by Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, translated from Norwegian by Guy Puzey and Frank Stewart, Quartet Books: London, 2010. During Israel’s 23-day war on Gaza (December, 2008 through January, 2009), an Israeli plane […]

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Medics: Teenager shot by soldiers near Gaza City

Maan News Agency | October 3, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian teenager southeast of Gaza City on Monday, medics and an Israeli army spokeswoman said. Spokesman for Gaza’s ambulance and emergency committee Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma’an that a 16-year-old boy was shot in his left leg while […]

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Medics: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in northern West Bank

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Maan News Agency | September 23, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Friday killed a Palestinian man and injured five others during clashes in Qusra village in the northern West Bank, medics said. Issam Kamal Odeh, 33, died after he was shot by two bullets in the […]

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Medics: Palestinian beaten by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint

Published 29/05/2011 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers brutally attacked a Palestinian man at an army checkpoint near Hebron on Saturday evening, medics said. Israeli soldiers stopped Mahmoud Al-Battat, 19, at around 7 p.m. at a checkpoint near Ad-Dhahiriya in the southern West Bank as he returned from work in Israel, medical officials told Ma’an. Soldiers […]

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Protesters: Megiddo must open doors to rights groups, doctors

14/03/2011 – 07:39 PM NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoner Committee has staged fresh protests near the Israeli Megiddo prison demanding that the prison opens its doors to rights groups and doctors. Demonstrators raised images of prisoners as Israeli authorities prohibited gathering directly in front of the prison. They closed off the area and classed it […]

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