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Critical Health Issues in Gaza

by Stephen Lendman December 11, 2011

Since locked down and isolated by Israel, Gaza’s experienced systemic crisis. Its health system especially was gravely harmed. Many services and life-saving treatments aren’t available.

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Fatenah [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah March 25, 2010

Fatenah is a 27 year old woman living in the Gaza Strip. Her life is similar to the lives of many other women in Gaza. Her life changes the day she discovers to have breast cancer. This animation, the first produced in Palestine, shows with great accuracy the scenarios of Gaza city. The 27 minutes [...]

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How Much Military Aid to Israel…Do You Provide?

by Haitham Sabbah February 9, 2010

Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel–the largest recipient of U.S. aid–$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade [...]

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Gaza robbed of the most basic human right: the right to health

by Stuart Littlewood January 3, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, marked the start of the New Year in a way that many campaigners for justice and liberty will find lamentable. The charity MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) had written an open letter to Brown asking him to “urgently use all available diplomatic [...]

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Gaza: Not Immune To Swine Flu (H1N1)

by Omar Ghraieb December 25, 2009

By Omar Ghraieb in Gaza | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Following the global pandemic known as Swine Flu (H1N1) in most parts of the world, Gazans started to believe they might be immune to its ravages. Their sense of assurance ended on December 6th when the first swine flu patient died in Gaza. People here [...]

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Israeli Brothels forbid prostitutes to use condoms to prevent evidence

by Haitham Sabbah October 31, 2008

By Vered Lee, Haaretz Correspondent Owners of “massage parlors” (a euphemism for brothels) forbid prostitutes working in them to use condoms because in a police raid they would be evidence that the establishment is for paid sex. A Health Ministry spokeswoman says that an increase in sexually transmitted diseases has been registered recently among prostitutes [...]

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Report: “68 Palestinian women gave birth on Israeli checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died”

by Haitham Sabbah April 12, 2007

[Cross posted at Daily Kos] [Image by Carlos Latuff] In a not-so-surprising newsreport, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli occupation soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers. Quoting Saed Bannoura’s report [...]

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Four top Israeli doctors arrested over illegal human experimentation!

by Haitham Sabbah October 10, 2006

Haaretz: According to a report issued by the investigations department of the Health Ministry and exposed by Haaretz, the hospitals in Gedera and Rehovot conducted illegal and unethical testing on thousands of elderly patients for years. During one of the incidents described, twelve patients died either during the experiments or shortly after they took place, [...]

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