Tag: Physicians for Human Rights
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Palestinian patients ‘interrogated before leaving Gaza for treatment’
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 4 May 2009 An Israeli medical human rights group said today that an increasing number of Palestinian patients from Gaza were being interrogated by Israeli security services before being allowed to leave the strip for treatment. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said at least 438 patients had been summoned for interrogation…
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Calls for independent investigation into military’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead
B’Tselem 30 March 2009 Israeli human rights organizations say, in response to the Israeli Army’s speedy closing of internal investigation files about war crimes in Operation Cast Lead: The speedy closing of the investigation immediately raises suspicions that the very opening of this investigation was merely the army’s attempt to wipe its hands of all…