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Gaza: Human Rights Organizations on artillery fire
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 8:03 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Human Rights Organizations to the Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense: Cancel the reduction of the 'Safety Zone' for artillery fire on Gaza More >>
Palestinian Workers Right: Medical Confidentiality
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 4:59 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel receives dozens of complaints each year from migrant workers whose right to medical confidentiality has been violated by their health insurance companies. This widespread occurrence in which the person’s medical ... More >>
Control with no Liability: New Report on Barta
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:58 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel released a new report today focusing on the enclave of Barta`a, which is trapped between the separation barrier and the “green line”. Inside the enclave live 5000 people. The medical services, quality of life, economy ... More >>
Israel: Find Solution for Prisoners’ Families
Monday, 20 February 2006, 4:46 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
The Health Rights Project, operated jointly by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Adva Center, filed a petition to the Israeli High Court today against the Minister of Labor and Welfare and the National Insurance Institute (NII) demanding ... More >>
Tightening of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip
Friday, 3 February 2006, 1:17 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel condemn the tightening of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation forces More >>
Israel: Physicians demand Judge's Disqualification
Friday, 20 January 2006, 2:33 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Demands Disqualification of Judge who Questioned a Prisoner's Right to Health More >>
Palestinian AIDS Patient Denied Entry into Israel
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 3:17 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Today, six senior experts in the HIV/AIDS field are publishing an open letter regarding a young Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip, who is suffers from hemophilia and is HIV+. He has been treated for an extended period of time at Tel Hashomer Hospital ... More >>
Palestinians Held Illegally in Russian Compound
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 1:38 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
On 5 January 2006, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel petitioned the Jerusalem District Court requesting to transfer 23 detainees being held in the Investigation Unit to an IPS facility. More >>
New Report on East Jerusalem and the Wall
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:47 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
In a new report, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel details the current situation in Jerusalem on three major levels: the political, economic and medical. Special attention is given to the separation wall being built in and around Jerusalem and ... More >>
PHR-Israel and GCMHP File New Petition
Monday, 12 December 2005, 1:48 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Due to the continued use of “sonic booms” by the Israeli Air Force over the Gaza Strip, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme have filed a joint appeal requesting an injunction from the Israeli High Court to ... More >>
Negrev: No Electricity For Cancer Patient, 3 years
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 9:46 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Enass al Atrash, a resident of an unrecognized Arab-Bedouin village in the Negev, became ill with cancer in January of this year, before her third birthday. At the same time that she went through arduous treatments, which included operations, radiation ... More >>
Urgent Appeal - End Closures of the Gaza Strip
Friday, 7 October 2005, 10:19 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
After the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip, a new situation emerged, where the fate of the Rafah crossing and other major Palestinian ports of entry and exit are in the hands of the Israeli forces. The Israeli forces imposed a strict ... More >>
Gaza After Disengagement- Patients Pay The Price
Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 9:44 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
In a short report published today, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel presents the implications of the implementation of the disengagement plan on the lives of the ill in the Gaza Strip. The poorly functioning border with Egypt on the one hand, ... More >>
Israel: Palestinian Prisoners must pay for Health
Friday, 23 September 2005, 9:35 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Israel Prison Service (IPS) relieved itself of responsibility for the health care of Palestinian prisoners in its custody and discriminates between them and other prisoners More >>
Violent Arrests in Nablus region
Friday, 5 August 2005, 10:58 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
One man, who was injured in a recent attack by Israeli settlers during which he suffered a head injury, was beaten and arrested. His brother was also beaten and arrested, accused of throwing stones. The entire arrest process was very violent and other ... More >>
Tougher for Patients from Gaza to enter Israel
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:19 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
On 20 June 2005, a Palestinian woman with a travel permit given for medical reasons tried to pass through Erez Crossing from the Gaza Strip into Israel with an explosive device in her possession and the intention to explode it in an Israeli hospital. ... More >>
Geneva Convention And Medical Care
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:11 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, in response to the reports in the media that a patient used her travel permit which was issued to her for medical reasons, in order to attempt to attack an Israeli hospital, in a place full of people, calls ... More >>
Burmese Former Political Prisoner Dies in Tel Aviv
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:51 am | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
The Burmese national was an asylum seeker living in Tel Aviv. A look at the current state of affairs in regards to asylum seekers and refugees in Israel. More >>
Medical Treatment Conditional upon Collaboration
Monday, 2 May 2005, 2:13 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
Muhammad Radad, 38 year old cardiac patient and father of five, discovered that the road to medical care passes by the Israeli GSS. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, aided by MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi, managed to abolish the conditions of the GSS and Radad ... More >>
Palestinian Detainee Denied Right to Healthcare
Monday, 2 May 2005, 2:06 pm | Physicians For Human Rights In Israel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 April, 2005 Translated from a Press Release from Physicians for Human Rights More >>