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Palestinians injured during Gaza demonstrations: over 1,400 may suffer long-term disability
This article was contributed by the World Health Organization and the Disability Working Group
Although the number of casualties recorded during the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations in Gaza declined during June (see infographic), the health sector has continued to struggle with the cumulative caseload of serious injuries, particularly those requiring long-term rehabilitation.
Israeli military industries and the oppression of the great march of return in Gaza
The UAVs used by the ISF in the Great March of Return were not only used to disperse crowds with tear gas or skunk water, or to shoot down incendiary kites, but also were used directly against Palestinian civilians. Though the ISF has been denying the use of armed drones for years, testimonies indicate UAVs have been used in the extrajudicial killings of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza throughout the twenty-first century in ‘special’ missions the ISF consistently rebuts.
Stalled decline in infant mortality among Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip since 2006
The estimated mortality rate in infants of Palestine refugees in Gaza has not declined since 2006. The stagnation of infant mortality rates indicates that further efforts are needed to investigate causes for this stagnation and ways of addressing the potentially preventable causes among Palestine refugee children in Gaza.
Razan Ashraf al-Najjar, obituary
Volunteer medical emergency first aid worker for the Palestinian Medical
Relief Society. She was born on Sept 13, 1997, in Khuza'a, Gaza Strip,
occupied Palestinian territory, and died after being shot while helping
the wounded near the Israel–Gaza border, on June 1, 2018, aged 20 years.
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The Maiming Fields of Gaza
Since 30 March 2018, Palestinians civilians living as refugees and exiles in Gaza ever since they were driven out from Palestine have been gathering in mass, unarmed monstration about their right of return to the homeland they lost in 1948. onfronted by the Israeli army, including 100 snipers, the toll of dead and wounded Palestinian civilians is mounting at a shocking rate as we write.
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The Palestinian Day of Return: from a short day of commemoration to a long day of mourning
On Friday, March 30, 2018, marking the 42nd anniversary of Land Day — when Israeli forces killed six Palestinians during protests against land confiscation in 1976 —Palestinians in the Gaza Strip marched to the eastern border with Israel beginning a six-week protest — what they termed the Great March of Return. It was the bloodiest day in Gaza since the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.
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The Gaza shootings: a massive orthopaedic crisis and mass disability
I am the Head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Gaza and I am writing in follow-up of the rapid response “The Maiming Fields of Gaza” of 4 May. (1) As of 18 May, the death and injury toll, rising every day, is 117 dead, including 13 children, and no less than 12,271 injured. 6,760 have been hospitalised, including 3,598 with bullet wounds. 19 clearly identified medics have been shot to date. (2)
Children of Gaza, request of support
Dear all,
I write to you to renew the call to support the work that we as NWRG and Children for Gaza are carrying on since, respectively, 2011 to 2012 in Gaza.
It is not charity work or emergency intervention, but it consists of projects for the development of mother and child health and scientific documentation of the factors that put them at risk, and for their protection.
A study of the relationship between the exposure of pregnant women to military attacks and heavy metal contaminants in newborns
Metal contamination of humans in war areas has rarely been investigated. Weaponry’s heavy metals become environmentally stable war remnants and accumulate in living things.
First Global Congress in Conflict Medicine
Long term risks of increase in NCD in war aftermath: changes in reproductive health in Gaza, Palestine, factors involved, and legacies.
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