Development
Health
Assessments, reports, attacks on medical aid, denial of medical rights, and other related information on the health situation in Palestine. Stories of access and denial of access to medical aid. (Added 4 December 2003)

  • Strikes paralyse Palestinian health sector, IRIN (31 August 2006)
  • Pregnant women must get urgent access to health care in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UNFPA (30 August 2006)
  • Gaza siege causing major health crisis, IRIN (29 August 2006)
  • Gaza pullout could worsen health crisis, Laila El-Haddad (28 January 2005)
  • Israel on the day after disengagement, medical concerns, PHR (27 January 2005)
  • Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes, Derek Summerfield (21 October 2004)
  • Medical impact of Israel's military assault on northern Gaza, Médecins du Monde (13 October 2004)
  • Israel's poisonous aerial spraying of Negev crops illegal, endangers health of Bedouin villagers, HRA (6 July 2004)
  • UNICEF witnesses cumulative effects of the conflict on health of Palestinian children, UNICEF (7 June 2004)

    Reports
  • A Legacy of Injustice: A Critique of Israeli Approaches to the Right of Health of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories (PDF) Physicians for Human Rights in Israel (2003)
  • Into the Third Decade: Building a Palestinian Health Movement (PDF) Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (2003)
  • Life and Health During the Israeli Invasion of the West Bank: The City of Nablus (PDF) Birzeit University (2002)
  • Life and Health During the Israeli Invasion of the West Bank: Ramallah and al-Bireh (PDF) Birzeit University (2002)
  • Environmental and Public Health Crisis Emerging in Northern West Bank Villages (PDF) Birzeit University (2002)


    Medical Rights
  • Fluids and salt must return to hunger-striking prisoners, Adalah (19 August 2004)
  • Coalition of churches fights for Palestinian health rights, Paul Jeffrey (21 October 2003)
  • Medical Concern for Palestinian detainee held in Ashkelon prison, PCHR (15 October 2003)
  • Denial of access to medical care in Israeli prisons, OMCT (18 September 2003)
  • Israel denies Palestinian human rights lawyer access to medical treatment, OMCT/DCI/PS (13 May 2003)
  • The Minister of Defense and the IDF are obligated to allow an attorney to visit a physically disabled detainee, PCATI (20 March 2003)
  • Women prisoners, including cancer patient, denied medical treatment, LAW (12 March 2003)


    Attacks on medical aid
  • Amin Salem 1969 - 2004: UHWC staff member killed during Israeli operation, Dr. Mona El Farra (12 October 2004)
  • Israeli forces attack medical staff in Rafah, PMRS (12 August 2004)
  • Israel obstructs medical aid, PHR-Israel (18 May 2004)
  • Palestinian medics forced to flee for their safety, PCRS (18 May 2004)
  • Israeli army in Hebron uses PRCS ambulance as shield, PCRS (28 January 2004)
  • Israeli forces target PCRS ambulance in Gaza, Médecins du Monde (28 January 2004)
  • PRCS medic beaten and detained by Israeli soldiers, PRCS (12 January 2004)
  • Joint appeal to denounce a series of violations of basic humanitarian laws and principles committed by the Israeli Army in Nablus, Medecins du Monde (28 August 2003)
  • Israeli forces invade medical aid office in Nablus, UPMRC (21 August 2003)
  • When Palestinian aid workers become victims, Till Mayer (26 June 2003)
  • Israeli forces attack medical center - update, UPMRC (14 June 2003)
  • Israeli forces attack medical center, UPMRC (13 June 2003)
  • Hhealth workers call on Israel to guarantee health workers protection, WHO (15 March 2003)
  • Assaults on medical personnel and mistreatment of the injured, Arjan El Fassed (30 March 2002)


    Access to Medical Aid
  • World Bank grant to sustain education, health and social services, World Bank (5 December 2003)
  • ICRC ends large-scale relief for Palestinians, ICRC (20 November 2003)
  • Severe mobility restrictions force Palestinian population to change health services, WHO (11 August 2003)
  • Remove physical barriers from villages in Nablus area, Physicians for Human Rights (26 March 2003)
  • Israeli checkpoints result in death of two Palestinian babies, Patricia Smith (18 December 2002)


    Diaries
  • View from a Palestine Red Crescent ambulance, Scott Weinstein (18 December 2003)
  • An American surgeon in Nablus, Edward W. Gallagher (10 November 2003)
  • Report from the medical front lines in Gaza, Steve Sosebee (10 March 2003)
  • Sick and tired, Arjan El Fassed (17 March 2002)
  • Convoy to Nablus, Andrea Becker (10 April 2002)
  • 'Journalists, paramedics, again', Arjan El Fassed (30 March 2002)


    Health Assessment: 2003
  • PRCS responds to humanitarian emergency in Rafah, PRCS (14 October 2003)
  • Coping with Conflict, Two years of into the intifada (PDF) FAFO (2003)
  • Gaza Strip faces a distinct humanitarian emergency, CARE (3 January 2003)


    Health Assessment: 2002
  • 'The patient is dying,' UN Middle East envoy says, UNSCO (12 November 2002)
  • Health situation of Palestinian people living in the occupied Palestinian Territory, WHO (27 September 2002)
  • MSF report tells story of Palestinian medical personal in Hebron, Gaza, Medicins san Frontieres (3 September 2002)
  • Survey finds high rates of malnutrition and anemia in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, CARE (5 August 2002)
  • The effects of Israel's Operation Defensive Shield on Palestinian children living in the West Bank, Samia Halileh (29 June 2002)


    Websites
  • Palestine Red Crescent Society
  • Health InForum
  • Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
  • Union of Health Work Committees
  • Physicians for Human Rights in Israel
  • Palestinian Counseling Center
  • Gaza Community Mental Health Programme


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