Israel will not break us, say defiant Palestinians
First Published:آ Januaryآ 9,آ 2009
CAIRO: Death, injuries and trauma have not managed to diffuse Palestinian desire to stand firm in the face of the Israeli operations against Gaza, now into its second week and a death tally of 760 with over 3,000 wounded.
Thirty-six wounded Palestinians currently receiving treatment at Cairo’s Nasser Medical Institute appear unequivocal in their Read the rest of this entry »

“May God make you be victorious,” she said. “I cannot stand what is happening to your people.”
Neither, apparently, can Hussein, a Palestinian policeman whose right arm was broken when Israeli missiles hit his police academy Dec. 27. Hussein voted for
in the last election but said he never joined their militia. That’s about to change.
“I want to go back and fight with Hamas,” he said.
strategy in Gaza is to crush Hamas’s will to fight, especially Read the rest of this entry »

Gaza – Ma’an – Medical sources in the Gaza Strip told Ma’an on Monday that three Palestinians died from wounds obtained during the three-week offensive.
They were being treated at Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Ambulance crews also uncovered at least 12 corpses of Palestinians killed in the fighting, many of whom may have bled to death awaiting medical care.
Another 50 injured Palestinians were transferred to hospitals in Egypt through Read the rest of this entry »

PALESTINIAN patients could soon be flown to Bahrain for urgent medical treatment in the wake of sustained Israeli attacks on Gaza, the GDN has learnt. Talks are reportedly underway that could see Palestinians transferred to medical facilities in either Jordan or Bahrain, Royal Charity Organisation secretary-general Dr Mustafa Al Sayed revealed yesterday.
There are also plans to send Bahraini doctors to Palestine to help treat patients, according Read the rest of this entry »

Gaza – Ma’an – Eighteen Palestinian patients returned home from Egypt through the Rafah crossing into Gaza on Tuesday evening after having received medical treatment in Egypt.
According to Mu’awiya Hassanein, director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Health Ministry, the patients had sought medical treatment at Egyptian hospitals.
Hassanein said some of those patients were being treated for chronic diseases, while Read the rest of this entry »

The decision to snub the offer of medical help from Israel has raised fears political rivalry between Fatah and Hamas is causing unnecessary suffering.
The Palestinian minister for health Fathi Abu Maghli, who belongs to the Palestinian national authority in the West Bank, said it would be wrong to allow Gazans injured by Israel to receive health care in Israel.
“The executioner cannot be the physician,” he said.
“We cannot send our wounded Read the rest of this entry »

Jan 13, 2009
GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian medical staff was able this morning to recover bodies of 22 Palestinian citizens killed during the IOF troops’ attempts to advance last night and early Tuesday into the Tel Al-Islam neighborhood, southeast Gaza city.
The medical staff have not been able to have access to all bodies which are caught in crossfire in the area, according to Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of emergency services in the health Read the rest of this entry »

“May God make you be victorious,” she said. “I cannot stand what is happening to your people.”
Neither, apparently, can Hussein, a Palestinian policeman whose right arm was broken when Israeli missiles hit his police academy Dec. 27. Hussein voted for
in the last election but said he never joined their militia. That’s about to change.
“I want to go back and fight with Hamas,” he said.
strategy in Gaza is to crush Hamas’s will to fight, especially Read the rest of this entry »