WORLD : Doctors Hit Gaza Strip Health Care
An Israeli-Arab doctors association today condemned medical conditions in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, citing inadequate services and Israeli military action against patients and staff.
In a 32-page report, the Assn. of Israeli and Palestinian Physicians for Human Rights alleged that medical services in the Gaza Strip “are tied to political, not medical (or) professional policy.”
“Since the beginning of the uprising in the occupied territories, a new tendency has appeared--the use of medicine as an additional means of repression against the population,” the report said. “This means that medicine has been removed from the status of a basic human right and recruited as a means of punishment.”
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