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Update on situation in Gaza
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COVID-19 vaccines for Palestinians – The Lancet
The Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance (LPHA), established in 2009, following the Lancet Series on health and health care in the occupied Palestinian territory, is an informal network of Palestinian, regional, and international colleagues researching the health of Palestinians. Ten annual scientific conferences have been held, with 748 research presentations involving more than 1000 coauthors. The LPHA has no representative or political purpose and prefers to speak only via the evidence presented in research studies. In the current COVID-19 vaccination crisis, however, we, the Steering Group of the LPHA, feel obliged to speak out.
Primary prevention of COVID-19 is crucial in all countries, but especially in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with its limited ability to cope with a surge of clinical cases. The Gaza Strip in particular has been under intensified blockade by Israel since 2007, resulting in shortages in medical supplies and clinical capacity.
Israel has denied its status and role as an occupier of the West Bank and the attendant responsibilities for the health of the occupied population, as laid down in the Geneva Convention and highlighted by the UN and 18 human rights organisations.
This denial is grossly at odds with facts on the ground, including: the limited control of the Palestinian Authority, involving only 38% of the West Bank, with the other 62% under Israeli military control; the building of 125 settlements on Palestinian land and about 100 outposts, with their associated infrastructure, including separate roads to Israel; the demolition of Palestinian buildings and destruction of agricultural land; the discriminatory nature of water management, favouring settlement communities and undermining Palestinian communities; and the impunity of settler violence. These are the hallmarks of an occupying presence, with implications for the health-care system and the health, livelihoods, and prospects of Palestinians.
Israel is complicit in the increased vulnerability of the Palestinian population to COVID-19. Israel has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to secure the urgent availability of approved vaccines. We call on physicians and other health professionals to raise their voices and put pressure on the Israeli Government to provide vaccines to Palestinians, including Palestine refugees on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The views expressed in this Correspondence are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of their institutions. The authors are members of the Steering Group of LPHA and committed to supporting the development of research on the health and health care of Palestinians. GW is a Trustee of the UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Published on https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00185-9/fulltext on January 28, 2021.
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On the eve of World Cancer Day, a letter from Gaza
2,000 Gazans diagnosed with cancer annually
8,644 new cancer cases registered in Gaza during the recent years, as the besieged enclave records new 2000 cases annually, head of the oncology department at the European Gaza Hospital, Ahmed Al-Shurafa, said.
Breast cancer is the most common in the Gaza Strip, at a rate of 18% among women and men, followed by colon, leukemia, thyroid, and lung cancer.
Cancer patients in the Gaza Strip suffer as a result of the shortage of cancer drugs and many other patients are transferred to hospitals abroad because of total absence of their needed medicines, while some cases cannot travel as a result to the blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip in general and the obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation on travellers through crossings in particular, Al-Shorafa added.
Among the challenges facing patients, in addition to the drug crisis and the travel ban, is the lack of devices in the Gaza Strip for nuclear and radiological scanning to detect different types of cancer, which delays the diagnosis of the disease in its early stages.
The international community is urged to intervene to provide the needs of cancer patients and to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to lift the siege and enable freedom of movement.
Dr Basem Naim
Member of Bureau for international relations in Hamas, former minister of health in Palestine
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Suffocation and Isolation: 15 Years of Israeli Blockade on Gaza
For 15 years, the Gaza Strip has been witnessing a suffocating blockade imposed by the Israeli authorities that has affected all social, economic and humanitarian sectors. Despite the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip reaching unprecedented levels, the blockade remains imposed on the enclave in a way that clearly shows how two million people can lead a decent life.
Israel began the Gaza blockade after Hamas won the legislative elections. Greater restrictions and sanctions were imposed after the elections in January 2006. The blockade was further tightened in mid2007-.
Read the report.
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Catastrophic effects of the siege of Gaza: the EU must act, now, to stop this crime
Since 2007, the Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, now 2 million people, have been subject to a blockade by Israel.
This blockade impacts all the aspects of the population’s daily life and it consolidates the fragmentation of the territorial and political Palestine, undermining dignified life and self-determination for the people towards the construction of a democratic and independent state.
Position paper of the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine. Read the full briefing here.
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Covid-19 in Gaza: Updated data
| date | total confirmed cases | active cases (includes new cases) | total recovered cases | new daily cases | deaths (total) |
| jan 19, 2020 | 48,341 | 6.170 | 41.678 | 313 | 493 |
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Covid-19 in Israel and Palestine: no to health apartheid
Petition addressed to: Mr Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy
In the current pandemic period, the State of Israel is sometimes presented as exemplary in terms of vaccination. Yet it leaves the Palestinian population of the territory it occupies in the West Bank and Gaza without health care and vaccines, as well as a whole part of the Palestinian population of Jerusalem, while providing these services to the inhabitants of the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
We do not accept this situation of health apartheid, just as we reject the policy of colonization, occupation, blockade and apartheid that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinian people.
Israel, which is still the occupying power, must provide the population it occupies with vaccines in the same quantity and quality as its own population, as well as the equipment for testing, protection, care (medicines and oxygen) at same level as the Israeli population. And Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons must be protected in the same way.
We call on the European Union to firmly remind Israel of its obligations, under international law as an occupying power, in the area of health, and to suspend its cooperation with Israel until these obligations are fulfilled.
Sign here: https://www.france-palestine.org/Covid-19-in-Israel-and-Palestine-no-to-health-apartheid
Covid-19 in Israele e Palestina: no all’apartheid sanitario
Firma la petizione Petizione indirizzata a: Sig. Josep Borrell, Alto Rappresentante dell’Unione Europea per la Politica Estera e di Sicurezza
Nell’attuale periodo di pandemia, lo Stato di Israele è talvolta presentato come esemplare in termini di vaccinazione. Eppure lascia la popolazione palestinese del territorio che occupa in Cisgiordania e Gaza senza cure sanitarie e vaccini, così come un’intera parte della popolazione palestinese di Gerusalemme, fornendo questi servizi agli abitanti degli insediamenti illegali nelle zone occupate in Cisgiordania.
Non accettiamo questa situazione di apartheid sanitario, così come rifiutiamo la politica di colonizzazione, occupazione, blocco e apartheid che Israele sta infliggendo al popolo palestinese, Israele, che è ancora la potenza occupante, deve fornire alla popolazione che occupa vaccini nella stessa quantità e qualità di quelli dedicati alla propria popolazione, nonché delle attrezzature per test, protezione, cura (medicinali e ossigeno) allo stesso livello della popolazione israeliana. E i prigionieri palestinesi nelle carceri israeliane devono essere protetti allo stesso modo.
Chiediamo all’Unione europea di ricordare con fermezza a Israele i suoi obblighi, ai sensi del diritto internazionale come potenza occupante, nel settore della salute, e di sospendere la sua cooperazione con Israele fino a quando questi obblighi non saranno adempiuti.
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A book
A book about the request pending at the International Penal Court to pursue justice for Gaza victims of israeli attacks since 2014.
Les dirigeants Israéliens devant la Cour pénale internationnal : L’enquête.
by Christophe Oberlin
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The Dilemmas of Practicing Humanitarian Medicine in Gaza: a testimony
As a Palestinian physician based in Haifa, I had been waiting enthusiastically for the opportunity to help the medical workforce in the Gaza Strip care for their fellow residents living in conditions of utter deprivation.[1] So, I was grateful to have the opportunity to join the delegation of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) on two trips to Gaza, in December 2019 and January 2020. PHRI is an Israeli human rights organization founded in 1988 to promote the equal right to health for all people in Israel and for those who live under Israeli occupation. It provides humanitarian aid through free and mobile clinics, operates a legal department to help Gazan patients secure permits to exit Gaza for medical treatment and advocates for policy changes. It is one of the only Israeli organizations allowed to regularly enter Gaza, which they do with their mobile clinic, bringing in physicians and medical staff who are Palestinian citizens of Israel along with medicine and equipment.
https://merip.org/2020/12/the-dilemmas-of-practicing-humanitarian-medicine-in-gaza-297/
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Interview (Italian) with a Palestinian activist
He was interviewed about the relation between pandemy and the military occupation. Find here the interview.
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