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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas listens during a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on May 16, 2014. photo credit: AFP/JUAN BARRETO)
August 21, 2017, 4:07 pm
Israeli general mocks Abbas for sending medical aid to Venezuela
Defense Ministry coordinator in West Bank points out Latin American country 'is more than 10,000 kilometers from Ramallah' while the beleaguered Gaza Strip is just next door
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative: Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian rioter in Wadi Joz, near the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
August 16, 2017, 7:25 pm
Police accused of assaulting staff, patients at East Jerusalem hospital
Left-wing group says border guards used violence while searching for rioters, may have caused the death of a patient
By TOI staff
Illustrative image of a Palestinian nurse tending to a newborn at the neonatal intensive care unit at the UAE hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 27, 2017. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
June 30, 2017, 1:48 pm
PA to again allow Gazan patients to be treated in Israeli hospitals
Outcry after deaths of three babies prompts Palestinian Health Ministry to issue more permits and funding for treatment
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a premature baby at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 28, 2017, 7:30 pm
Israel denies PA claim it’s responsible for deaths of 3 Gaza infants
After Hamas blamed Abbas, Ramallah said Israel refused family of babies entry permits; Israel says no applications received
By Dov Lieber
A newborn is seen inside an incubator at the neonatal intensive care unit at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on April 23, 2017. (Said Khatib/AFP)
June 27, 2017, 9:30 pm
Abbas blamed as 3 Gazan babies die after denied Israel entry permits
Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says other infants are in imminent danger of a similar fate
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative: International Red Cross members securing transport for sick Palestinians from Gaza into Israel for medical treatment at the Erez Crossing on June 19, 2007. (Ahmad Khateib/ Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 12:57 pm
Amid Hamas feud, PA said delaying Gazans’ medical treatment in Israel
Gaza residents and NGO report longer waits for permits, coinciding with increased pressure on Strip's terrorist rulers
By Alexander Fulbright
The nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants (Brauner Teddy/GPO)
June 16, 2017, 6:28 am
When Israeli doctors allegedly tested Yemenites for ‘Negro blood’
Lawmakers reexamine 20-year-old testimonies alleging medical experiments on new immigrants in 1950s, but make no demand for further action
By Marissa Newman
33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 3-year-old patient Yaqin Shawaf, who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City, March 17, 2016. (AP/Adel Hana)
June 14, 2017, 5:29 am
With Gaza ailing, PA accused of slashing medical aid by nearly 90%
Officials say Ramallah has reduced the money it gives for healthcare from $4 million to $500,000, leaving patients without medicine and equipment. As power is cut, it will only get worse
By Dov Lieber
Protesters hold portraits of Palestinian security prisoners during a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah to show their support of Palestinians detained in Israeli jails, after hundreds of them launched a hunger strike on April 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
May 7, 2017, 9:27 pm
3 weeks into hunger strike, Palestinian inmates add vitamins
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel slams proposal to import doctors to force feed prisoners, set up field hospitals
By AP and TOI staff
Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed al-Qiq with Joint (Arab) List MK Osama Sa'adi at the Emek Medical Center in Afula, on February 26, 2016. (Courtesy Joint List)
February 26, 2016, 1:04 pm
Mohammed al-Qiq announces end to 94-day hunger strike
Palestinian journalist's representatives say he has made deal with authorities that will see him released from administrative detention in May
By TOI staff
A Palestinian man lying on a bed wears a mask depicting hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq during a demonstration in solidarity with him in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 19, 2016. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
February 22, 2016, 10:50 pm
At 89 days, Palestinian is longest-fasting hunger striker in decades
Mohammed al-Qiq's condition said to be critical; no one else has survived this long, says Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
By Agencies and TOI staff
The two terrorists from Jabel Mukaber who carried out the attack on a Har Nof synagogue, November 18, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)
July 1, 2015, 5:11 pm
Israel seals Jerusalem home of terrorist’s family
Uday Abu Jamal killed five people in attack on synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood last year
By Avi Lewis and Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative photo of a prisoner in leg cuffs (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
February 11, 2015, 7:58 pm
‘850 Shin Bet torture complaints yield no investigations’
Physicians for Human Rights says number of annual petitions against intelligence agency has grown fourfold since 2012
By Tamar Pileggi
The two terrorists from Jabel Mukaber who carried out the attack on the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem, November 18, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)
November 27, 2014, 7:12 pm
High Court freezes house demolitions for Har Nof killers
Ruling comes after families file appeal, rights groups petition against practice; razing of two other terrorists' homes also halted
By Marissa Newman
Palestinians demonstrate in support of hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, April 9, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)
April 11, 2013, 8:52 am
Israeli medical watchdog says Palestinian hunger strikers mistreated
Prison Service says Physicians for Human Rights' criticism is incorrect
By Stuart Winer
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