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2011-07-16 | News</span>  | Alresalah News</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;unicode-bidi:embed;direction:ltr;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">GAZA</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">, (Alresalah.ps), <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>EXCLUSIVE</strong></span>&#8212;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> The medicine crisis in the Gaza strip has not been resolved yet, and many  patients&#8217; lives are threatened, whereas a health disaster is loomig in Gaza.A senior Health ministry official told <span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>Alresalah.ps</strong></span>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;unicode-bidi:embed;direction:ltr;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Dr. Munir AL-Bursh, Director General of Pharmacy Department at the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said: &#8220;More than 170 medicines and 140 medical consumables are currently out of stock&#8221;, noting that the Gazan patients&#8217; consumption is estimated with more than USD 2.5 million per month.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;unicode-bidi:embed;direction:ltr;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Al-Bursh held the Ministry of Health in Ramallah fully responsible for this crisis.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;unicode-bidi:embed;direction:ltr;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Chronically ill patients, especially children and the elderly, are the worst hit.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;unicode-bidi:embed;direction:ltr;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Human rights organizations accuse &#8220;Israel&#8221; of violating international humanitarian laws, specially the 4<sup>th</sup> Geneva Convention, which outlaws torture, collective punishment and the resettlement by an occupying power of its own civilians on territory under its military control.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;unicode-bidi:embed;direction:ltr;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The United Nations has repeatedly appealed for the opening of all crossings into the Gaza Strip, warning of the severe negative impact on Gaza&#8217;s population.</span></span></p>
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