Tag: Physicians for Human Rights
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Concern mounts for three remaining hunger strikers
30 July 2012 | Addameer, Al Haq, PHR-Israel Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) are gravely concerned for the life and health of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel. Of utmost concern is the health and life of administrative detainees Samer Al-Barq, today on…
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Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes
By Richard Falk 9 July 2012 | Richard Falk WordPress The persistence of Palestinian hunger strikes shocks me for two reasons: that these extreme expressions of moral freedom alert all who choose to expose their consciousness to such realities of the severely abusive arrest, detention, and interrogation procedures that many Palestinians living under Israeli occupation…
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Family fears their son is dying within Israeli prison
by Alistair George 6 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Mohammad Awad is a 16 year old Palestinian boy, he is in an Israeli jail and he is gravely ill – his family believe that he is not receiving the right treatment and that he may be dying. As they sit in their…
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PHR: Delayed permission for exit from Gaza causes death of toddler
October 20, 2010 | Physicians for Human Rights Occupied Territories Department of Physicians for Human Rights Reports on Another Death in Gaza of a Sick Person who Did Not Receive a Permit to Exit the Gaza Strip for Medical Care Nasama Abu Lashin, a two-year old toddler from Gaza died on Saturday October 15, 2010…
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Physicians for Human Rights Israel, mobile clinic in Bil’in
Bil’in Popular Committee 11 July 2009 Today, July 11th, Physicians For Human Rights Israel came to visit the Palestinian village of Bil’in. Volunteer doctors, nurses, paramedics, optometrists, pharmacists, psychologists and translators came to Bil’in with the mobile clinic to offer their support to the community. At their arrival, PHR Israel was warmly welcomed by the…