PHA-Exchange> urgent appeal from Palestine

Tue Nov 7 05:21:11 PST 2006

                             Urgent Appeal

Date: 5/11/2006

For the fifth consecutive day, the Israeli military forces continue its
invasion to Beit Hanoun north of Gaza Strip. The number of victims has
reached 47 of the civil citizens; while more than 200 were injured (half
of them are women and children). According to the statistics of the
Palestinian Ministry of Health 42 of the injured are children, 40 are
women, and 2 from the working medical teams. The Israeli occupation
forces are using its heaviest military tools in it aggression against
the Palestinian defenseless civilians. One of the most hideous
manifestations on the Israeli Nazism is its incurrence to a females'
march, causing the killing of 2 women and the injury of 40 women, in
addition to 2 paramedical members were killed and 4 were injured.

In all times, the Israeli military forces hindered the work of the
medical crews, and prevented – in many sites - the ambulances from
reaching the injured and sick to rescue them. On the other hand, the
barbaric Israeli attack has lead to the abruption of the water and
electricity in the city, total destruction to the infrastructure, the
imprisonment of tens of Palestinians, the destruction of houses, the
assault of the religious places, and the curettage of plants. Moreover,
a curfew is imposed on the overall area, and the attack is also
continuous on Rafah and Jabalia Camp, in addition to Bethlehem and
Nablus.

In general, hospitals are subjected to continuous attack. In addition to
the invasion of Biet Jala Hospital, and the kidnapping of injured
Palestinians, hospitals are suffering from acute shortage in the medical
instruments, and patients are unable to access hospitals and medical
centers to get the needed health care services, especially for children
and pregnant women.

The Health Work Committees appreciates the role of the medical teams and
centers, and hospitals in Gaza Strip in general, and in Beit Hanoun in
particular, and in the north of the West Bank for their quick response
to the emergency and humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian
territories. On the other hand, we also appreciate the role of the Red
Cross Organization, the World Health Organization, the UNRWA, and many
other institutions. The Health Work Committees affirms that the HWC in
the north of Gaza Strip, especially in AlAwda Hospital, and the medical
center\Jerusalem in Beit Hanoun are working in their full capacity. HWC
urges the international organizations to provide AlAwda Hospital that
belong to the Health Work Committees and the other health facilities
with the needed medical instruments, medications, and consumables to
keep their services. The HWC also encourages people to keep donating
blood.

The Health Work Committees looks at this escalating and deteriorating
situation, because of the Israeli actions in the occupied Palestinian
territories, with a big concern and:-

     1. Condemns these hideous crimes that reflect the Israeli
        fecklessness with the Palestinian lives, violating the fourth
        Geneva convention for the year 1949 (especially article 33). We
        also demand to consider the Israeli actions in the Palestinian
        territories collective and retaliatory actions, including the
        execution policy that the Israelis apply against Palestinians.

     2. Demands the international community to move immediately to stop
        the Israeli crimes, and urge the Semitic parties who agreed on
        the fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their commitments
        according to the first article and article 146 to pursue the
        Israeli forces legally for their crimes and assaults against the
        Palestinian civilians.

     3. Demands the Arab World with all its human rights organizations,
        cadres, and parties to move immediately to support the armless
        Palestinian people that face a real threat. 

The Health Work Committees warns from the danger of not stopping the
Israeli criminal operations in the Palestinian territories, because it
is threatening with more victims and chaos and more disastrous and
humanitarian health situation, including the spread of epidemics,
diseases, and uncontrollable implications.

Health Work Committees

Dr. Ahmad Maslamani

General Director. 

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