Page 3 - Natalie Thurtle News Today

Deaths of doctors have further hit medical services struggling with damaged facilities and medicine shortages A Palestinian injured in Israeli airstrikes is treated at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock A Palestinian injured in Israeli airstrikes is treated at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock Mon 17 May 2021 12.23 EDT Last modified on Mon 17 May 2021 14.18 EDT In her bed in Gaza City’s Shifa hospital, 25-year-old Aya Aloul re...

Heavy bombing by Israel is causing a catastrophic situation in Gaza Format JERUSALEM/NEW YORK, MAY 13, 2021 - Recent violence in Jerusalem and airstrikes on Gaza - which have injured hundreds of people and killed dozens, including children are having a devastating impact on communities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. MSF said the force used by Israeli police i...

13 May 2021 – In the wake of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that left hundreds of Palestinians, including children, with injuries, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) finds the use of force by Israeli police unacceptable and raises the alarm on the devastating impact of any escalation in the Gaza

MSF treats hundreds of Palestinians injured by Israeli police in Jerusalem Format On May 10, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began supporting the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jerusalem to assess and stabilize hundreds of Palestinians injured by Israeli police. “We spent a whole day treating Palestinians, including children, with rubber bullet, stun grenade, and blunt trauma injuries. People had also been sprayed with a chemical fluid known as skunk water...

Jerusalem /PNN/ On Monday 10 May, Médecins sans frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) started supporting the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jerusalem to assess and stabilize dozens of Palestinians injured by the Israeli police. “We spent a whole day treating Palestinians, including children, with a rubber bullet, stun grenade, and blunt trauma injuries. People had also been sprayed with a chemical fluid known as skunk water and had inhaled tear gas. Many patients have got h...

At least 32 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza City and three residents in Israel Firefighters and security forces inspect damage at a house in Yehud, near Tel Aviv, after rockets were launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Hamas said on May 12, 2021, it had fired more than 200 rockets into Israel in retaliation for strikes on a tower block in Gaza. AFP Rescuers move Israelis from their homes in Yehud, near Tel Aviv, after rockets were launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. AFP S...

Israel’s vaccine rollout has been the envy of the world. As of Wednesday, 57.4 percent of Israelis have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 53.3 percent had received both. In a year of pandemic-induced stagnation—of the economy and of personal lives—the swift rollout has been nothing short of life-changing. The New York Times said the country offered a vision of the future. But only a few miles away, millions of people face a dramatically different reality. In Gaza and t...

Schools close in Gaza amid Covid-19 surge Gaza’s two million residents escaped a wide-scale coronavirus outbreak at the start of the pandemic, but cases are now rising epa09118491 A view of the closed United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school amid the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in Gaza City on, 06 April 2021. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER Palestinian medics work at al-Shifa Hospital amid a spike in coronavirus cases, in Gaza City on April 7, 2021. / AFP / MAHMUD HAMS epa09118489 ...