139th Palestinian patient dies due to Israeli siege on Gaza

From: Andrew Silvera

139th Palestinian patient dies due to
 Israeli siege on Gaza
Ghassan Banoura, IMEMC

Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian
patient from Beit Hanoun, located in the northern Gaza
 Strip, died on Tuesday because she was prevented by
 the Israeli army from leaving Gaza for medical treatment.
 Sou'ad Qushita, 54, had cancer and needed life-saving
medical treatment outside of the GazS strip. Her family
said that she applied twice last week to leave the gaza
strip for medical care, but was refused by the Israeli
 army because they claim that Israel is celebrating
holidays.... http://www.imemc.org/article/54530

Fuel Crisis in Gaza: MSF is forced to scale
 back its medical activities
Palestine News Network

This comes from Médecins Sans Frontières:
 "Doctors without Borders" in English. Not only
is the UNRWA stopping its food aid to the
destitute population of the Gaza Strip due to
the Israeli ban on fuel imports, so is MSF
decreasing its medical services. The Israeli
government issued a statement late last week
claiming, "There is no fuel crisis in Gaza."...
Read the full: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=43533

Meanwhile:

Gaza streets to be flooded with wastewater
 if fuel crisis continues
Palestinian Information Center

The popular committee against the siege warned
 that the Gaza streets are threatened to be flooded
 with wastewater after drainage wells stopped working
as a result of the fuel crisis and the Israeli persistence
 in preventing the entry of any kind of petroleum
derivatives. The popular committee underlined that
the situation in Gaza as a result of the fuel crisis is
worsening every day and new negative impacts
surface, where this crisis already led to the collapse
 of many crucial services such as ambulance service
and garbage collection service...Read the full:
 http://www.uruknet.de/?p=43540


IOF shelling knock out
Beit Hanun electricity transformer
Palestinian Information Center

IOF shelling of the Beit Hanun electricity transformer
station during its incursion into the town in northern
Gaza on Monday knocked out power in the area
 and paralyzed water supplies. A Hamas statement
 on Tuesday charged the Israeli occupation forces
with deliberately targeting the transformer station in
line with the policy of tightening the siege on Gaza.
 It said that around 200,000 citizens in northern Gaza
spent Monday night in complete darkness and are still
suffering from electricity outage and lack of water for 24
hours, which also affected work in hospitals and clinics...
Read the full: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=43538


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