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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (the OIC) said in its monthly report that medical security in Gaza is dying and has plummeted into a crisis which is “the worst of its kind”.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report says the hospitals and medical centers suffer an acute shortage in medicines and medical supplies which has put a hold on eye operations, pediatric surgeries, and cardiac catherization, and tumor operations and caused special formula milk for children to completely run out.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report urges the Red Crescent and human right groups in Arab and Muslim countries for the need to act urgently in providing the Strip with its medical needs.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In terms of the projects by international and local organizations operating in the Gaza Strip, the report observes most of this month&#8217;s funding went to the water and waste water sectors while the women and child health sector remained below the required levels.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It said that although there was a marked calm in terms of Israeli military operations against the Strip, the Israeli occupation forces continued to harass Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It highlighted that two men died while working on the tunnels on the Rafah border crossing.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">This month there was a noticeable increase in aid convoys and foreign support groups showing solidarity with the Gazans, said the OIC, which has 56 member states and a permanent seat in the UN. The month saw the first aid convoy from South Africa, as the first of its kind from Africa.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">With regards to the energy crisis, the report recorded continued power outages with a slight drop in the length of the lapses because of the institution of a third generator. It details also that obtaining water is still a daily challenge for Gazans as the heat rises and the energy condition worsens.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The OIC secretary-general Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu has promised to study the possibility of a visit to the Gaza Strip soon in light of the OIC&#8217;s hiked intervention as well as invitations by several humanitarian groups and officials.</p>
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<li><a href="http://bit.ly/mPHskr" target="_blank">Palestinian deaths following infringement of right to medical treatment in the OPT, 2000 -2011</a>| Btselem </li>
<li><a href="http://www.mezan.org/en/details.php?id=10398&amp;ddname=torture&amp;id_dept=31&amp;p=center" target="_blank">In violation of Medical Ethics and International Law: Israel Restricts the Access of Gaza Patients to Urgent Medical Treatment if their Condition is Not Life-Threatening</a> | Al mezan | June 30, 2010</li>
<li><a href="http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/palestine.html" target="_blank">Children and Armed Conflict: Developments in the OPT</a> | UN | April 13, 2010</li>
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