Petition addressed to: Mr Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy

Winter 2020 Issue Editors: Nabil Al-Tikriti, Kevan Harris and Graham Cornwell with Guest Editor Omar Dewachi Health and health care have become increasingly ungoverned over the past few decades, in tandem with a broader breakdown of the body politic.  

by Osama Tanous As a Palestinian physician based in Haifa, I had been waiting enthusiastically for the opportunity to help the medical workforce in the Gaza Strip care for their fellow residents living in conditions of utter deprivation.

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.  

Long Term Risks to Neonatal Health From Exposure to War: 9 Years Long Survey of Reproductive Health and Contamination by Weapon-Delivered Heavy Metals in Gaza, Palestine

EU research funds have been a very important source of funding for Israeli academics, corporations, and state institutions, among them a number of military companies and those involved in illegal Israeli settlements. Although Israel is not an EU country, since 1995 Israeli applicants have been able to access EU research funds on the same basis…

Conflict-related trauma remains a major burden of disease on the health sector in Gaza and since the mass demonstrations by Palestinians began on 30 March 2018, every week there is a growing number of injured people in need of urgent life and limb saving interventions. According to the latest information from the Health Cluster Situation…

Document determinants of reproductive and child health – assess the changes in time, identify interfering environmental factors, prevent damage and find remedies   Read the document (English) Read the document (Italian)  

Prevalence of preterm, low birth weight and birth defects increased significantly since 2011 in Gaza, Palestine. No change in known co-factors of reproductive health justified this rise. Two military attacks in 2012 and 2014 introduced novel risk factors for outcomes at birth: contamination by teratogenic and carcinogenic heavy metals weapon- remnants, ongoing impoverishment, and impaired…