health

Israeli town with anti-Bedouin bias earmarked for Dutch water project

Palestinians receive inferior service to Jews in town set to benefit from Jewish National Fund scheme.

Palestinian medical workers in Syria struggle to provide basic services

Mutawalli Abou Nasser
Damascus
7 June 2013

A nine-year-old girl is among those to have died because they could not receive essential treatment.

Gaza hospital chosen for solar power project

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
16 April 2013

Renewable energy should make Gaza less vulnerable to power cuts.

Sightseeing under siege: a "tourist map" for Gaza

Eva Bartlett
Gaza City
3 April 2013

A geographer has listed the attractions in Gaza City in a bid to show how friendly its people are.

Dying prisoner treated cruelly by Israeli doctors over many years

Linah Alsaafin
Ramallah
1 April 2013

Maysara Abuhamdia may only have days to live; he has long complained of “intentional negligence” by doctors “treating” Palestinian detainees.

Israel's siege tips Gaza waste management to crisis point

Eva Bartlett
Gaza City
1 April 2013

Gaza municipality uses donkey carts to collect 350 tons of waste daily.

Bridging the gap: the health workers who visit Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

Anne Irfan
19 March 2013

In Ein al-Hilweh I learned some of the stark realities faced by Palestinian refugees there.

Rafah crossing with Egypt still a prison gate for many Palestinians in Gaza

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
7 December 2012

While attempting to reach Egypt with his wife’s medical records, EI’s Rami Almeghari found the way barred.

Israeli officials use fake graphic to justify bombing Gaza hospitals

UN found no evidence to back Israeli claims about misuse of health facilities.

Breast cancer screening service opens in West Bank

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Dura
13 November 2012

Breast cancer accounts for more than one-fifth of all cancers affecting women in the West Bank.

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