8 apr 2019
Senior health official Munir al-Barsh has warned the health situation in the Gaza Strip has become extremely difficult since the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah stopped to send medical supplies.
According to him, the PA has stopped to provide Gaza with its share of medical supplies since the beginning of the current year.
In remarks published by the government media office on Monday, Barsh said that 48 percent of medicines, about 237 types of drugs, became unavailable in the health ministry’s warehouses in Gaza.
He added that 23 percent of medical consumables also become out of stock.
The health official affirmed that such situation would negatively affect the basic services provided by the ministry for different patients, including those who suffer from cancer, blood diseases and heart problems.
According to him, the PA has stopped to provide Gaza with its share of medical supplies since the beginning of the current year.
In remarks published by the government media office on Monday, Barsh said that 48 percent of medicines, about 237 types of drugs, became unavailable in the health ministry’s warehouses in Gaza.
He added that 23 percent of medical consumables also become out of stock.
The health official affirmed that such situation would negatively affect the basic services provided by the ministry for different patients, including those who suffer from cancer, blood diseases and heart problems.
A Palestinian health official has warned that the lives of many heart patients in the Gaza Strip have become at risk after the Palestinian Authority (PA) decreased medical referrals to hospitals in the occupied territories.
Dr. Mohamed Habib, head of the cardiac catheterization department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, expressed deep concern over the lives of heart patients, who need stent implantation, after the PA reduced medical referrals for Gaza patients by almost 45 percent during the current year.
There are long waiting lists of heart patients, who need medical referrals to hospitals outside Gaza in order to undergo stent procedures, Dr. Habib said.
The PA health ministry in Ramallah only approved medical referrals for 531 such patients out of 1,000 applications submitted to it during the last three months, while it gave 922 referrals for patients with similar cases in the first quarter of 2018, according to the health official.
Dr. Mohamed Habib, head of the cardiac catheterization department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, expressed deep concern over the lives of heart patients, who need stent implantation, after the PA reduced medical referrals for Gaza patients by almost 45 percent during the current year.
There are long waiting lists of heart patients, who need medical referrals to hospitals outside Gaza in order to undergo stent procedures, Dr. Habib said.
The PA health ministry in Ramallah only approved medical referrals for 531 such patients out of 1,000 applications submitted to it during the last three months, while it gave 922 referrals for patients with similar cases in the first quarter of 2018, according to the health official.
30 mar 2019
Belal al-Najjar 17
Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday marched along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip to mark the first anniversary of the Great March of Return.
The Ministry of Health announced that four protesters were killed by Israeli gunfire, and 316 were injured, including 86 children, 29 women, 3 medics, and 6 journalists.
The martyrs were identified as Mohammed Saad, 20, Adham Amara, Tamer Abu al-Kheir, and Belal al-Najjar. The three are aged 17.
The head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haneyya and the Egyptian delegation to Gaza attended the protest camp held east of Gaza city, the PIC reporter said.
A general strike was announced by the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege earlier in the day in all Gaza institutions in commemoration of the Palestinian Land Day and the first anniversary of the border demonstration.
Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Interior and National Security Iyad al-Bozom said in a statement that the ministry deployed 8,000 of its security forces along the border to help and protect the demonstrators.
The Palestinians launched the Great March of Return on 30 March 2018 on the border between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied territories to demand the refugees right to return and call for lifting the 13-year-long blockade on Gaza.
The Israeli occupation army have met the peaceful protesters with excessive force, killing 278 and injuring over 31,000, about 500 of whom are in critical condition.
Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday marched along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip to mark the first anniversary of the Great March of Return.
The Ministry of Health announced that four protesters were killed by Israeli gunfire, and 316 were injured, including 86 children, 29 women, 3 medics, and 6 journalists.
The martyrs were identified as Mohammed Saad, 20, Adham Amara, Tamer Abu al-Kheir, and Belal al-Najjar. The three are aged 17.
The head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haneyya and the Egyptian delegation to Gaza attended the protest camp held east of Gaza city, the PIC reporter said.
A general strike was announced by the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege earlier in the day in all Gaza institutions in commemoration of the Palestinian Land Day and the first anniversary of the border demonstration.
Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Interior and National Security Iyad al-Bozom said in a statement that the ministry deployed 8,000 of its security forces along the border to help and protect the demonstrators.
The Palestinians launched the Great March of Return on 30 March 2018 on the border between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied territories to demand the refugees right to return and call for lifting the 13-year-long blockade on Gaza.
The Israeli occupation army have met the peaceful protesters with excessive force, killing 278 and injuring over 31,000, about 500 of whom are in critical condition.
Adham Nidal ‘Amara, 17
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers killed, Saturday, two Palestinians, and injured 112, including at least 13 with live fire, among them two who suffered life-threatening wounds.
The two slain Palestinians have been identified as Adham Nidal ‘Amara, 17, and Mohammad Jihad Sa’ad, 20, east of Gaza city.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers killed, Saturday, two Palestinians, and injured 112, including at least 13 with live fire, among them two who suffered life-threatening wounds.
The two slain Palestinians have been identified as Adham Nidal ‘Amara, 17, and Mohammad Jihad Sa’ad, 20, east of Gaza city.
Jihad Saad, 20
The Health Ministry said that among the wounded are thirteen children and four women, and added that two of the wounded Palestinians suffered serious wounds, 25 moderate injuries, and 32 who were mildly wounded.
59 of the wounded Palestinians were rushed to hospitals, and the rest were treated in the filed clinics.
It stated that 13 Palestinians were shot with live rounds, four with rubber-coated steel bullets, four were injured by shrapnel, seven were shot with gas bombs, and 14 suffered various cuts and bruises.
Seventeen of the wounded were injured in the neck and face, 10 in the upper extremities, 2 in the back and chest, 4 in the pelvis and abdomen, 19 in the lower extremities, 6 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and one who suffered wounds to various parts of the body.
Eleven of the wounded Palestinians were injured in northern Gaza, 12 near Gaza city, 16 in the central district, 5 in Khan Younis, and 15 in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
The army also targeted many medics and ambulances, wounding two medics and causing damage to one ambulance.
Injuries as detailed by the Health Ministry:
Updated: Israeli Soldiers Kill One Palestinian, Injure 99, In Gaza
Mar 30, 2019 @ 13:05
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a young man died, on Saturday morning, after Israeli soldiers shot him with a live round during a protest, east of Gaza city.
Update: The soldiers shot seven Palestinians, and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, across the perimeter fence in the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said medics have provided treatment to 99 Palestinians.
The protests are still ongoing in several areas of the Gaza Strip, especially east of Gaza city, Jabalia in northern Gaza, al-Boreij in central Gaza, in addition to Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern part.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said the Palestinian, Mohammad Jihad Sa’ad, 20, was killed after the soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinian protesters on their lands near the perimeter fence.
He said the Palestinian was killed after being struck with a bullet shrapnel in the head, near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city.
Mohammad was from the Sheja’eyya neighborhood in Gaza city; his corpse was moved to the Shifa Medical Center.
It is worth mentioning that Mohammad was injured several times since the beginning of the Great Return March procession a year ago.
In related news, the soldiers shot and injured at least eleven other Palestinians, including a child, 13, who was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head, during the ongoing Saturday protests in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of thousands of Palestinians started gathering on lands near the perimeter fence, marking Palestinian Land Day, and the first anniversary since the beginning of the Great Return March.
Media sources in Gaza said that National Committee for Breaking the Siege has called for a million-person march, marking Land Day, and the first anniversary of the Great Return March, demanding lifting the siege on Gaza, the internationally-guaranteed Right of Return, the liberation of Palestine and independence.
The Committee also called for a comprehensive strike, which includes schools and universities, across the besieged Gaza Strip.
It is worth mentioning that the Health Ministry in Gaza has declared the readiness of its emergency centers and hospitals.
Palestinian succumbs to wounds sustained in Gaza night protests
A 20-year-old Palestinian succumbed to his wounds, on Saturday morning, that he had sustained during Friday night protests, also known as “Night Confusion,” east of Gaza City in the central besieged Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed, in a statement, that Muhammad Jihad Saad, 20, was injured in the head with bullet shrapnel, and transferred to the al-Shifa Hospital for medical treatment, where he was pronounced dead on Saturday morning.
At least 11 Palestinians were injured alongside the eastern border fence of the Gaza Strip during "Night Confusion" protests.
For several weeks, hundreds of Palestinian protesters, have been organizing, as well as participating in night protests, during which they set tires on fire and chant slogans through loud speakers, while marching towards the border with Israel. These protesters are also known as the "Night Confusion" unit.
Additionally, the ministry declared that all emergency departments of the Gaza Strip are prepared for Land Day protests across the besieged enclave as it also marks the 1 year anniversary for "The Great March of Return" protests that launched on March 30th, 2018 by thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza -- which has suffered from a decade-long Israeli siege -- who took to the borders to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel.
The Health Ministry said that among the wounded are thirteen children and four women, and added that two of the wounded Palestinians suffered serious wounds, 25 moderate injuries, and 32 who were mildly wounded.
59 of the wounded Palestinians were rushed to hospitals, and the rest were treated in the filed clinics.
It stated that 13 Palestinians were shot with live rounds, four with rubber-coated steel bullets, four were injured by shrapnel, seven were shot with gas bombs, and 14 suffered various cuts and bruises.
Seventeen of the wounded were injured in the neck and face, 10 in the upper extremities, 2 in the back and chest, 4 in the pelvis and abdomen, 19 in the lower extremities, 6 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and one who suffered wounds to various parts of the body.
Eleven of the wounded Palestinians were injured in northern Gaza, 12 near Gaza city, 16 in the central district, 5 in Khan Younis, and 15 in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
The army also targeted many medics and ambulances, wounding two medics and causing damage to one ambulance.
Injuries as detailed by the Health Ministry:
- Three suffered life-threatening wounds.
- Four suffered serious wounds
- 47 suffered moderate wounds.
- 58 suffered mild wounds.
- 23 shot with live rounds.
- 7 shot with rubber-coated steel bullets.
- 5 injured by shrapnel to several parts of the body.
- 13 suffered effects of teargas inhalation.
- 33 shot with gas bombs.
- 31 suffered cuts and bruises.
- 40 of the wounded were injured in the head in neck.
- 17 in upper extremities.
- 5 in the back and chest.
- 8 in the abdomen and pelvis.
- 32 in the lower extremities.
- 1 suffered cuts and bruises to many parts of the body.
- 23 in northern Gaza.
- 24 near Gaza city.
- 22 in Central District.
- 13 in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
- 30 in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Updated: Israeli Soldiers Kill One Palestinian, Injure 99, In Gaza
Mar 30, 2019 @ 13:05
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a young man died, on Saturday morning, after Israeli soldiers shot him with a live round during a protest, east of Gaza city.
Update: The soldiers shot seven Palestinians, and caused dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, across the perimeter fence in the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said medics have provided treatment to 99 Palestinians.
The protests are still ongoing in several areas of the Gaza Strip, especially east of Gaza city, Jabalia in northern Gaza, al-Boreij in central Gaza, in addition to Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern part.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said the Palestinian, Mohammad Jihad Sa’ad, 20, was killed after the soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinian protesters on their lands near the perimeter fence.
He said the Palestinian was killed after being struck with a bullet shrapnel in the head, near the perimeter fence, east of Gaza city.
Mohammad was from the Sheja’eyya neighborhood in Gaza city; his corpse was moved to the Shifa Medical Center.
It is worth mentioning that Mohammad was injured several times since the beginning of the Great Return March procession a year ago.
In related news, the soldiers shot and injured at least eleven other Palestinians, including a child, 13, who was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head, during the ongoing Saturday protests in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of thousands of Palestinians started gathering on lands near the perimeter fence, marking Palestinian Land Day, and the first anniversary since the beginning of the Great Return March.
Media sources in Gaza said that National Committee for Breaking the Siege has called for a million-person march, marking Land Day, and the first anniversary of the Great Return March, demanding lifting the siege on Gaza, the internationally-guaranteed Right of Return, the liberation of Palestine and independence.
The Committee also called for a comprehensive strike, which includes schools and universities, across the besieged Gaza Strip.
It is worth mentioning that the Health Ministry in Gaza has declared the readiness of its emergency centers and hospitals.
Palestinian succumbs to wounds sustained in Gaza night protests
A 20-year-old Palestinian succumbed to his wounds, on Saturday morning, that he had sustained during Friday night protests, also known as “Night Confusion,” east of Gaza City in the central besieged Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed, in a statement, that Muhammad Jihad Saad, 20, was injured in the head with bullet shrapnel, and transferred to the al-Shifa Hospital for medical treatment, where he was pronounced dead on Saturday morning.
At least 11 Palestinians were injured alongside the eastern border fence of the Gaza Strip during "Night Confusion" protests.
For several weeks, hundreds of Palestinian protesters, have been organizing, as well as participating in night protests, during which they set tires on fire and chant slogans through loud speakers, while marching towards the border with Israel. These protesters are also known as the "Night Confusion" unit.
Additionally, the ministry declared that all emergency departments of the Gaza Strip are prepared for Land Day protests across the besieged enclave as it also marks the 1 year anniversary for "The Great March of Return" protests that launched on March 30th, 2018 by thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza -- which has suffered from a decade-long Israeli siege -- who took to the borders to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel.
29 mar 2019
The United Kingdom announced, today, a new package of $2.6 million to provide urgently needed medicines and surgical supplies to hospitals in Gaza.
The funding will help keep Gaza’s hospitals functioning as they face increasing demand from the number of trauma patients, as a result of more than 23,000 Palestinians who have been injured since 20 March 2018 during protests at the Gaza border.
Rising demands on hospitals have reduced general access to healthcare, with consistent shortages of medicines and supplies leading to increased rates of infection, and a growing risk of amputations and antibiotic resistance.
The UK embassy in Jerusalem said, according to WAFA, that the new aid package will support the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to deliver urgently needed surgical equipment, medicines, wound dressing kits, prosthetic limbs and post-surgery physiotherapy. It will also help to provide physical rehabilitation services for up to 3,000 disabled people.
Announcing the new funding, UK International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said, “The UK is deeply concerned by the crisis in Gaza and the pressure it is putting on hospitals, which are now near breaking point. The UK aid funding announced today will help treat the growing number of emergency patients and provide urgently needed medicines, surgical supplies and rehabilitation.”
“UK aid has helped prevent the spread of disease, and given people access to healthcare, clean water and sanitation. It [the UK] also recently provided a package of emergency food supplies for more than 62,000 Palestinian refugees at risk of going hungry,” he added.
The funding will help keep Gaza’s hospitals functioning as they face increasing demand from the number of trauma patients, as a result of more than 23,000 Palestinians who have been injured since 20 March 2018 during protests at the Gaza border.
Rising demands on hospitals have reduced general access to healthcare, with consistent shortages of medicines and supplies leading to increased rates of infection, and a growing risk of amputations and antibiotic resistance.
The UK embassy in Jerusalem said, according to WAFA, that the new aid package will support the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to deliver urgently needed surgical equipment, medicines, wound dressing kits, prosthetic limbs and post-surgery physiotherapy. It will also help to provide physical rehabilitation services for up to 3,000 disabled people.
Announcing the new funding, UK International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said, “The UK is deeply concerned by the crisis in Gaza and the pressure it is putting on hospitals, which are now near breaking point. The UK aid funding announced today will help treat the growing number of emergency patients and provide urgently needed medicines, surgical supplies and rehabilitation.”
“UK aid has helped prevent the spread of disease, and given people access to healthcare, clean water and sanitation. It [the UK] also recently provided a package of emergency food supplies for more than 62,000 Palestinian refugees at risk of going hungry,” he added.
27 mar 2019
Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher, 18
A Palestinian paramedic succumbed, on Wednesday morning, to wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli forces in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on predawn.
Medical sources confirmed that Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher, 18, who is a volunteer paramedic succumbed to his wounds.
Four Palestinians were injured with live Israeli bullets during clashes in Dheisheh.
A Palestinian paramedic succumbed, on Wednesday morning, to wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli forces in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on predawn.
Medical sources confirmed that Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher, 18, who is a volunteer paramedic succumbed to his wounds.
Four Palestinians were injured with live Israeli bullets during clashes in Dheisheh.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, shot five Palestinians, including a medic, and abducted three others.
Media sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at dozens of youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the armored vehicles.
They added that four Palestinians were shot with live fire before they were rushed to medical centers in Bethlehem, while many others suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.
The soldiers also shot a medic, identified as Sajed Mizher, while providing treatment to wounding Palestinians.
One of the Palestinians was shot with a live round in the abdomen and was rushed to surgery at the Arab Society Hospital for Rehabilitation, a second Palestinian was shot in the shoulder, a third in the thigh and the fourth in the arm.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in the refugee camp and occupied several rooftops to use them as firing posts and monitoring towers.
During the home invasions and searches, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Rezeq Hammash, 21, Mahmoud Walid Lahham, and Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, 27.
Media sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at dozens of youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the armored vehicles.
They added that four Palestinians were shot with live fire before they were rushed to medical centers in Bethlehem, while many others suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.
The soldiers also shot a medic, identified as Sajed Mizher, while providing treatment to wounding Palestinians.
One of the Palestinians was shot with a live round in the abdomen and was rushed to surgery at the Arab Society Hospital for Rehabilitation, a second Palestinian was shot in the shoulder, a third in the thigh and the fourth in the arm.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in the refugee camp and occupied several rooftops to use them as firing posts and monitoring towers.
During the home invasions and searches, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Rezeq Hammash, 21, Mahmoud Walid Lahham, and Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, 27.
25 mar 2019
Israeli soldiers injured, on Sunday evening, two Palestinians, and caused many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in several areas in the eastern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds at Palestinian protesters, wounding two, before they were rushed to a hospital.
The sources added that several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and many others suffered cuts and bruises.
In addition, the army fired a tank shell into Palestinian lands east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and another shell into an area east of Juhr ad-Deek, southeast of Gaza city, causing damage.
The army also caused damage to a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance after an Israeli tank shell landed and exploded near it while the medics were trying to reach wounded Palestinians, in northern Gaza.
Medical sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds at Palestinian protesters, wounding two, before they were rushed to a hospital.
The sources added that several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and many others suffered cuts and bruises.
In addition, the army fired a tank shell into Palestinian lands east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and another shell into an area east of Juhr ad-Deek, southeast of Gaza city, causing damage.
The army also caused damage to a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance after an Israeli tank shell landed and exploded near it while the medics were trying to reach wounded Palestinians, in northern Gaza.