Posted on 09/26/2005 9:21:02 AM PDT by Alouette
Physicians for Human Rights: Israel’s withdrawal does not absolve it of responsibility for lives, health of Gaza residents Ynet
In post-pullout Gaza the sick pay the price: Palestinian Gaza residents suffering from illness are not receiving proper treatment in the wake of Israel’s withdrawal from the area, according to a report issued by the Physicians for Human Rights organization.
Hundreds of sick Gazans have been left untreated and trapped in the Strip and are waiting for its gates to open, the report says.
“The closure imposed by Israel on Gaza since the beginning of the pullout prevents entry into Israel or passage through Israel into the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The border with Egypt is also closed until further notice and it is not clear when it will open,” the report charges.
The organization claims that “The occupied territories are one unit. Israel has obligated itself to maintaining them as such under the Oslo Agreements. Therefore, it is Impossible that passing through Israel requires the same conditions that must be met in order to enter Israel.
“In addition, Israel cannot say that its leaving Gaza ends the state of occupation, as long as it is present in the other occupied territories,” the report adds.
“As long as Israel influences the policy of passage from Gaza and into it, it is fully responsible for what is happening in Gaza and for the people rotting inside of it”, the organization added.
Unable to receive chemotherapy
The doctors noted that cancer patients who used to receive treatment in Israel nowadays hardly receive permits allowing them to reach the hospitals. Only seven out of 40 patient requests to enter Israel for treatment in the last two weeks have been approved.
The organization added that 40-50 patients usually leave for Egypt in order to receive treatments that are not provided in Gaza. However, since the day Egypt closed the border and until now not one person has left (excluding those patients who succeeded in crossing the border the day it was opened.)
The organization argued that “The attempt to prevent us, as an Israeli human rights organization, from criticizing the functioning of Israeli authorities is against Israeli administrative law. We are talking about the right to receive medical treatments and to live.”
“Israel must publish the wording of its agreement with Egypt regarding the passage from Gaza to Egypt and vice versa and reveal the extent of its influence on the ability to pass freely through this border,” the doctors said.
“Israel must cease its involvement in (affairs related to) entry and exit from Gaza, as the continuation of this involvement constitutes the continuation of the occupation. In the present situation Israel must allow passage in general, and the passage of patients and medical crews in particular through the Erez Crossing”, the doctors concluded.
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Israel has obligated itself to maintaining them as such under the Oslo Agreements.
Oslo accords? Didn't Arafat take a large dump on them?
So the PA forces Israel out then says it has to take care of the PA people there... Doesn't that mean the Jews would have to be there to take care of the PA meaning they could not or should not have left?
Didn't the PA destroy and loot all the jews buildings on their arrival?
Just out of interest, who runs the PA any more?
recall the story a few weeks ago about a suicide bomber who faked sikeness like they were going to an israeli hospital... can't blame them.
FYI, a good read:
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000125.html
They'll limit themselves to one IED per entrant...
Where is the help from the Arab brothers? Hold firm Israel you have no obligation to these vermin.
Time for the Palis to learn that self-determination means just that.
Too bad...you wanted a country now take on the responsibility. why should Israel risk bombings to take care of Palestinians?
Really, ain't that the truth!
Next Israel needs to cut loose all the Jerusalem residents who spit on the obligations of citizenship while soaking up all the welfare benefits they can.
YEs, let them use the earnings from the hothouses to purchase chemotherapy machines for their hospitals and clinics. Oh, they don't HAVE any hospitals and clinics? And they LOOTED the hothouses? Guess they're up a creek without an oar then.
If I remember correctly there was a female homicide bomber who was also a patient at an Israeli hospital and she used her patient pass to infiltrate and kill Jews.
Who is preventing the Gazans from entering Egypt to receive medical care in Egypt? Is the Egyptians or the Israelis?
Now they want to hold Israel responsible for sick squatters not even in Israel??
Let the Arabs take care of them - they wanted the land so much. It goes with the territory!
If not that, something similar.
And sent suicide bombers via Israeli ambulances to Israeli hospitals...
Yeah and like any Jewish Doctor that enters to attend the sick is safe from Palestinians terrorists too arent they??
These people are nuts. Screw 'em
Surely with the $billions$ its received, the PA can build an airstip and perhaps even a hospital and medical school?
The "organization" failed to mention that Israel has no influence over the passage of Gaza residents into Egypt (where there are hospitals), but I guess those facts don't fit in with their agenda.
Doesn't the Saudi financed University of Gaza Medical Center provide care?
The border with Egypt is also closed
Just so I understand.
Israel leaves. closes the door to keep out barbarians who want to kill Israelis.
Egypt closes border to the barbarians because even Egyptians are not complete morons.
Arabs get sick
Israeli's fault.
Eygpt had the border open untill the palis pulled a NO and rioted, destroyed everything and raped and pillaged. So Egypt had no choice but close the border to the animals.
Boo frickin' hoo. Bed. Made. Lie in it.
Just tell the Egyptians that the patients are going to pick up another shipment of guns, and they will be passed right through..
Then they can check in at the nearest hospital for a checkup and treatment, and on the way back, bring more weapons...
Starting to sound like professional welfare recipients in our country... In fact, it sounds just like them.
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Don't the palesites avail themselves of advanced Islamic medicine?
"Just out of interest, who runs the PA any more?"
Iran.
Lol! Tough shitsky!
The nerve of these people.
Then it sounds like the Palistinians' issue should be with the Egyptians, not the Israelis.
Let the Saudis and Iranians take care of them. Why would they want Jewish Doctors?
IIRC it's part of Lebanon's Constitution.
"Surely with the $billions$ its received, the PA can build an airstip and perhaps even a hospital and medical school?"
Sure we buy them books and build them schools and they kill the teachers. Hospitals? they need dog kennels and bear cages.
"there is not even single heart scanner for the territory's 1.3 million inhabitants"
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:0wPv-6knUM0J:news.yahoo.com/news%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D/afp/20050825/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpulloutgazahealth+gaza+hospitals+heart&hl=en
Yet there appear to be plenty of Kalashnikovs. Whose priorities are those?
“Israel must cease its involvement in (affairs related to) entry and exit from Gaza, as the continuation of this involvement constitutes the continuation of the occupation. In the present situation Israel must allow passage in general, and the passage of patients and medical crews in particular through the Erez Crossing”
Are these Doctors or foreign ministers of the Arab League?
Let's compromise and give them a veterinary clinic.
The lunatics in the asylum.
Yes, the Palis are big losers; Gaza will become a Hamas stonghold.
Already is. Can you believe it's already rockets and gunships and artillery? I mean, we all knew it, but the rapidity is still a bit shocking.
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