[ 05/02/2011 – 09:21 AM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– News reports said the Egyptian soldiers stranded on Gaza borders as result of the internal unrest get food and basic supplies from the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian government’s security forces in Gaza have been providing Egyptian soldiers deployed on the Rafah border area with food […]
Continue readingQuds 5: Libya to provide Gaza’s medical needs
[ 22/01/2011 – 03:41 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya hosted the Libyan Quds 5 convoy at the Legislative Council noon Saturday. He praised Libya for its support of the Palestinian cause and tremendous efforts in breaking the four-year economic blockade Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip. “The Libyan delegation […]
Continue readingTabba’a: Closing of Mintar crossing causes sever shortage in Gaza basic needs
[ 21/01/2011 – 11:43 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian economy expert Maher Al-Tabba’a, , has warned Thursday that the closure of the Mintar crossing point caused sharp shortage in the basic needs of the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip. Tabba’a, who is also the director of the public relations section in the Palestinian chamber […]
Continue readingNaim calls for an int’l body to ensure constant medical supply to Gaza
[ 19/01/2011 – 08:26 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Minister of Health Bassem Naim said his ministry was working round the clock to provide service suitable to Palestinian citizens in light of challenging circumstances the strip faces after the devastating Gaza war two years ago. Naim said his ministry has no stock of 190 […]
Continue readingGaza’s share of medicine withheld in Ramallah on political decisions
[ 17/01/2011 – 10:27 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The lives of 450 kidney patients are at risk as the West Bank health ministry withholds the Gaza Strip’s share of medicines in Ramallah warehouses, the Gaza health ministry said. 183 medicines are out of strategic stock, said Gaza Director General of Pharmaceuticals Munir al-Bersh. Dialysis […]
Continue readingHealth ministry: Fatah authority withholding medicines needed in Gaza
[ 06/01/2011 – 10:14 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza health ministry warned Wednesday that the PA health ministry in Ramallah is continuing to withhold medicines required by Gaza patients. The Gaza ministry believes the neglect to be politically motivated, calling it “political harassment at the expense of innocent Gaza patients.” 170 necessary medicines […]
Continue readingAsia aid vessel unload shipment in El-Arish
[ 05/01/2011 – 10:17 AM ] EL-ARISH, (PIC)– The Asia 1 aid convoy unloaded its shipment of medical and food supplies bound to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night in the Egyptian port of El-Arish. Osama Al-Sartani, the head of the Egyptian Red Crescent branch in northern Sinai, said that the medical supplies were […]
Continue readingGaza Health Ministry warns hundreds of medical supplies out of stock
[ 04/01/2011 – 10:49 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza health ministry is warning of a critical shortage in essential medical supplies. “Hospitals and medical centers have run out of 162 medicines and 165 consumable medical supplies,” the ministry said in a statement. The ministry of health is calling on international humanitarian organizations to quickly […]
Continue readingIsrael’s Siege on Gaza: “Blue Baby Syndrome” from Water Contamination
Here’s an excerpt from a United Nations Environmental Report on Gaza Water in 2009, It is now more than one year later and the situation has obviously gotten worse. Also read the B’Tselem Report below the video Restoring Gaza Strip’s underground water supplies a top priority – UNEP press release (14 September 2009): “The area […]
Continue readingIRIN Middle East | ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza food supplies strangled by 1,000-day blockade | Israel | OPT | Economy | Food Security | Health & Nutrition
Photo: Tom Spender/IRIN Sixty-one percent of the Gaza population is food insecure RAMALLAH, 30 May 2010 (IRIN) – The amount and quality of food available to the estimated 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip has been severely restricted by more than 1,000 days of a near-complete blockade, states a UN Food and Agriculture […]
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