right to health

An Israeli army officer watches as Palestinian medics evacuate a wounded Palestinian man in Bethlehem. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Denying access to health is a silent tool of occupation

The Palestinian health system is fragmented into three segregated territories — East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank — and Israel controls access to and from each of them. By Dana Moss While discussions over health in Israel often focus on the healthcare provided to Israeli citizens, Palestinians in the occupied territories struggle to secure…

By +972 Magazine April 7, 2017

Illustrative photo of digital surveillance. (Shutterstock.com)

Against spy revelations, Israel doth protest too much

The nation’s establishment has called the whistle-blowers of Unit 8200 every bad name, but it has no answer to their charge that information deliberately gathered on innocent Palestinians is used to blackmail them into collaborating. The 43 refuseniks in Unit 8200, Israel’s legendary high-tech snoops, are this week’s Gideon Levys, this week’s Haneen Zoabis –…

By Larry Derfner September 16, 2014

A Palestinian man from Gaza walks down an open air corridor at the Erez Crossing terminal, the northern checkpoint leading from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in the area of Beit Hanun, February 14, 2012. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Resource: How the Shin Bet holds Gazans’ health ransom

A 2008 report by Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, detailing for the first time the methods Israel’s domestic security services use to exploit the medical needs of Gaza Strip residents in order to extort them into becoming collaborators for Israel. In September 2014, dozens of Israeli army intelligence reservists publicly spoke out…

By +972 Resources September 16, 2014

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