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Disturbing medical findings in warrelated traumatic amputation patients: a clinical descriptive study from Gaza
Objectives
The aim of this study was to explore possible long- term negative health effects of injuries sustained by modern weaponry.
Setting
The study was conducted in Gaza’s main hospital, Al- Shifa Hospital.
Fuel and Gazan hospitals: Israeli siege and the politics of permanent emergency
Last August we published a rapid response at bmj.com to publicise the cumulatively devastating effects upon Gaza’s health system of 12 years of Israeli blockade and their strategy of de-development and impoverishment of Gazan society. Israeli restrictions have produced chronic shortages of almost all essential medicines and hospital equipment, of fuel to run hospital generators, the cancellation of all elective surgery (affecting more than 6000 people), hospital closures, and many doctors and staff on reduced or no pay.
Gaza shootings: an orthopaedic crisis and mass disability
Further to Summerfield and colleagues’ correspondence on the situation in Gaza,12
I respond as head of plastic and reconstructive surgery in the country.
The death and injury toll is still rising—as at 18 May, 117 were dead,
including 13 children, and 12 271 injured. 6760 have been hospitalised,
including 3598 with bullet wounds. Nineteen clearly identified medics
have been shot.
Gunshot Gaza: hospitals struggle to treat surge in firearms injuries
More than a thousand people in Gaza have been left with life changing
injuries after being shot by Israeli soldiers at demonstrations in the
past few months, doctors have said, leading to a medical emergency.
The maiming fields of Gaza
The BMJ reports on Gaza’s post-conflict health infrastructure.1
Since 30 March 2018, Palestinians civilians who have been living as
refugees in Gaza since 1948 have been gathering in mass, unarmed
demonstrations about their political predicament and the ongoing effects
of the 12 year long Israeli siege.
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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Israeli medical humanitarian group is to share alternative Nobel prize
The Tel Aviv based Physicians for Human Rights-Israel will share the
“alternative Nobel prize” for its work, which includes helping
Palestinians, migrant workers, and refugees. The prize, the Right
Livelihood Award, was established in 1980 to “honour and support those
offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges”
and will be awarded in the Swedish parliament in Stockholm on 6
December, four days before the official Nobel prize ceremony.
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