By Reverend Carolyn Boyd * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz | Sept 8, 2011 “What if we stopped the three billion dollars in aid we give to Israel annually and used the savings to create a national jobs-deficit reduction programme?… This is the time to reallocate financial resources to American families and communities and to [...]
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Health ministry: Cancer patients are exposed to pharmaceutical piracy
[ 10/08/2011 - 03:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of health said patients with leukemia and cancer tumors in Gaza hospitals are exposed by Israel and the Palestinian authority (PA) to what it described as “pharmaceutical piracy” threatening their lives. In a press release, spokesman for the ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra stated that one [...]
Health Ministry : We are waiting for medicine arrival to Gaza
2011-08-10 | Alresalah News Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)–Dr. Monir El-Bursh, the general manager of pharmacy in Palestinian Health Ministry, declared that 40% of medicines deserved to Gaza’s hospital was scheduled to arrive in Gaza the next few days. El-Bursh pointed out that the Health Ministry calls many international associations inside and outside Gaza in order to put pressures [...]
PRESS RELEASE | Veolia, major target of Palestinian BDS campaign, in financial crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Aug 8 2011 | BDSmovement.net French multinational Veolia to cut back global operations after €67.2 million losses BDS campaign has cost Veolia large contracts across Europe over its illegal Israel project Losses comes on heals of Agrexco’s financial woes, another main BDS target Only days after losing out on another [...]
Some of entitled medicines to arrive in Gaza in days
[ 07/08/2011 - 04:34 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Munir al-Bersh, the Gaza health ministry’s director-general of pharmaceuticals, said a portion of entitled medicines are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip within the next few days. Bersh said the health ministry has contacted organizations both at home and abroad in a bid to pressure the [...]
Gaza electricity crisis ‘due to faulty power line’
Published today 19:26 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians in Gaza have been breaking their daily fast in darkness this Ramadan due to an electricity crisis in the coastal enclave. Gaza’s energy authority said the blackouts were caused by a faulty power line from Israel. Officials in Gaza said Israeli authorities were stalling maintenance of the [...]
The crisis of medicines reached a grave level
04-08-2011,13:45 Al Qassam website- Gaza- senior health official warned that the crisis of medicines and medical consumables have reached a dangerous level threatening the lives of patients in Gaza hospitals and became much worse than the situation that preceded the Israeli war. Information director at the Palestinian health ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra told a news conference [...]
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 [...]
Gaza faces imminent health crisis
PressTV -Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:50PM GMT Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have warned of an imminent health crisis due to a severe shortage of medicines and fuel in the coastal sliver. The health ministry has stressed that the lives of hundreds of patients, especially those with chronic diseases, are [...]
Crisis of medical supplies in Gaza shoots up
[ 31/07/2011 - 09:49 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– An official at the Palestinian health ministry said that the list of medical supplies that ran out in the Gaza Strip rose to 180 types of medicines and 149 of medical disposables. The ministry’s public relations and information director Ashraf Al-Qudra warned on Saturday that this acute [...]
On Ramadan’s eve, severe financial crunch hitting occupied territories
[ 30/07/2011 - 05:28 PM ] From Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah Muhammed and Sarah Sawabha live at a middle class Ramallah neighborhood, with their six children, including two college students. Muhammed has a Bachelor of Science and earns a monthly salary of about $800 US dollars as a teacher at a local school. His wife, [...]
Blockade on Gaza root cause of crisis
Sat Jul 30, 2011 6:7PM GMT Interviewed with Ken O’Keefe, an Irish-American activist Israel has imposed a blockade on the Gaza strip since the democratically elected Hamas government took control of the territory in 2007. The crippling blockade on the territory has triggered a humanitarian crisis. The Palestinian people in Gaza are struggling to attain [...]
European parliamentarians meet with health minister in Gaza
[ 28/07/2011 - 07:34 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A high-profile delegation of parliamentarians from various European countries has met with Gaza Health Minister Bassem Na’im on a tour of the Gaza Strip. Minister Na’im briefed the delegation headed by British Labor party chairman Tony Lloyd on the effects the Israeli political and economic blockade has [...]
What it means to heal when there’s nothing to heal with ~ by @samikishawi
By Sami Kishawi | July 19, 2011 | The Palestine Entries: Entry #30 The current healthcare system in the Gaza Strip is notorious for its limitations in resources and space, a direct consequence of a siege that prohibits most medicines and equipment from reaching hospitals and health clinics throughout the territory. It isn’t entirely evident [...]
Knesset right-winger urges her gov’t to steal more Palestinian lands
[ 26/07/2011 - 08:54 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– A right-wing Knesset member urged the Israeli premier to escalate settlement expansion and to seize more Palestinian lands in the occupied territories in Jerusalem and the West Bank at the pretext of seeking solutions to what she claimed Israel’s housing crisis. According to Israel’s national news agency, [...]