Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication [ 05/12/2011 – 12:13 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian prisoner Safi Houshiya, sentenced to 35 years in jail, said the prison administration refuses to provide him with medical treatment and held it fully responsible for his life. The Palestinian […]
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Israel ‘detains man en route to hospital’ at Gaza crossing
Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication Maan News Agency | Dec 2, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a young man seeking medical treatment in Israel at the Erez crossing from Gaza, a prisoners organization said on Thursday. Ahmad Khamis Alika was leaving for an urgent […]
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Detainees: Israel worsens treatment ahead of next swap stage
Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Maan News Agency | Dec 1, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees in Israel’s Nafha prison said Thursday that they have been mistreated by prison authorities in an attempt to stir up tension before the second phase of a prisoner […]
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The ridiculous burdens borne by Gaza medical patients ~ by Rami Almeghari
Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication Rami Almeghari | The Electronic Intifada | Cairo | 30 November 2011 Some medical patients in Gaza must go to great lengths (literally) to receive treatment. (Abed Rahim Khatib /APA images ) My family’s lengthy journey to seek medical treatment for my wife began […]
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The anguish of a Gaza cancer patient in Cairo
Avoidable Mortality in Palestine Rami Almeghari | The Electronic Intifada | Cairo | 21 November 2011 Palestinian patients suffering from terminal illnesses face not only limited treatment options in Gaza, but travel restrictions and enormous financial burdens for care in Egypt. (Abed Rahim Khatib /APA images ) It took five days before Mohammad Wadi was able to […]
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Ex-prisoner banned from seeking treatment abroad
Related: When will the UN bring Human Rights to Palestine? Maan News Agency | November 15, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel on Tuesday rejected an official application by the Palestinian Authority to allow a former female detainee to visit Jordan for urgent medical treatment. Director general of the Nablus district Tayseer Nasrallah said Israel informed […]
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Detainees’ Strike Increasing, May Develop As “Irish Strike”
Support Prisoners of Palestine – Action Alert Worldwide Event Thursday October 06, 2011 13:07 by Mais Azza – IMEMC & Agencies All Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails will join in the open-ended hunger strike on October 11, in response to the humiliating and degrading polices imposed upon them, the Palestine News Agency reported Thursday morning […]
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Palestinian girl “subjected to cruel treatment” in Israeli prison
REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Monday, 26 September 2011 14:00| MEMO Bushra Jamal, 17, the daughter of the mayor of El Bierah in the Occupied West Bank, was taken from her father’s home in August. The Mandela Institute has reported that a Palestinian girl has been subjected to “cruel interrogation and detention” following […]
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Border Authority Prevents West Bank Patient From Traveling To Jordan
Palestinian deaths following infringement of right to medical treatment in the OPT, 2000 -2011 – Report of B’tselem Monday September 05, 2011 11:34 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli Border Authorities at the Allenby Bridge, leading to Jordan, prevented on Sunday a seriously ill West Bank patient, a former political prisoner, from traveling […]
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Inhumane treatment meted to lawyers visiting Palestinian captives
[ 26/08/2011 – 05:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC) Anan Oudeh, layer for Al-Dameer Institute for Welfare of Captives said that layers visiting Palestinian captives suffer inhumane treatment when visiting their clients in Israeli occupation jails. Oudeh said, in a statement on Thursday, that he went to visit some captives at Askalan central prison but discovered […]
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Prisoner falls into coma amid medical neglect at Negev prison
[ 11/08/2011 – 10:34 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Zakariyya Dawud Issa, 43, from Khadar in Bethlehem governorate, has fallen into a coma after not being served the proper treatment by the Negev prison ward, sources among the prisoners have reported. They added that symptoms had been appearing on Issa for months without being given the […]
Continue readingWho’s the boss here? What well-off Israelis refuse to know about their rule
Aug 9, 2011 | Jews for Justice for Palestinians Two book reviews, 1st what soldiers say about controlling the OPT, 2nd how the prison system and Shin Bet maintain a security state Soldiers’ testimonies on the occupied territories The main significance of the testimonies published by Breaking the Silence is not in the descriptions of […]
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Family of Palestinian captive appeal for saving his life
[ 05/08/2011 – 04:29 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Family of captive Imad al-Masri, who spent more than 22 years in occupation jails, met with the Red Cross representative in Jenin, Dima Mahajnah, to express concern over the deterioration of his health. Masri’s family called on the international organisation to intervene to save the life of […]
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Al-Mezan 2-year Ranged Report: “Israel” Used Cruel, Inhuman Treatment against Gazans
Local Editor | Al Moqawama Lebanon Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights issued on Wednesday a report on the torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip by the “Israeli” occupation forces (IOF). In this documentation of the human rights violations in the Gaza Strip, al-Mezan […]
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Passionate Letter Highlights the Unrelenting Plight of Palestinian Prisoners
PNN – Palestine News Network – 21.07.11 – 13:02 Ramallah – PNN – In a letter sent by Ms. Feda Abdelhady-Nasser, Charge d’Affaires, to the UN Secretary-General, the President of the Security Council and the President of the UN General Assembly, Ms Abdelhady-Nasser outlined the grave plight Palestinians prisoners continue to face under Israeli occupation. […]
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