THE HAGUE, Netherlands —6 July 2018—The Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), issued an interim report on the FFM’s investigation to date regarding the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma, Syria on 7 April 2018. The FFM’s activities in Douma included on-site visits to collect environmental samples,…
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.
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…
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.
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. Read the article on The Lancet
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. Read the full study