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<p>A notoriously racist rabbi who once called on Israel to slaughter a million Palestinian civilians has been appointed to head a supervisory committee for Magen David Adom (MDA) – Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/health/1.1739841"><em>Haaretz</em> reported</a> that under pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups MDA decided to set up a rabbinical committee to dictate religious guidelines – including gender relations – for volunteers in the rescue service.</p>
<p>The committee is headed by Rabbi <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/shmuel-eliyahu">Shmuel Eliyahu</a>, the Chief Rabbi of Safad, whose salary is paid by the Israeli government. <strong>Eliyahu has a long, well-documented history of extreme racism and has called for violence against Palestinians.</strong></p>
<p>Since 2006, Magen David Adom – whose name means Red Star of David – has been a full member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and is Israel’s internationally recognized agency for disaster management, ambulance service and blood banks.</p>
<p>The organization also raises tax-exempt donations in the United States through the <a href="http://www.afmda.org/">American Friends of Magen David Adom</a>.</p>
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<h3>‘Kill a million’</h3>
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<li>In 2007, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/top-israeli-rabbis-advocate-genocide/6974">Eliyahu advocated mass slaughter of Palestinians</a> in order to deter rocket fire from Gaza, while defending a ruling by his late father that Israel was permitted to indiscriminately kill civilians. “<strong>If they don’t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand</strong>,” Shmuel Eliyahu advised, adding, “And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don’t stop we must kill 100,000, <strong>even a million</strong>. Whatever it takes to make them stop.”</li>
<li>Eliyahu has stated that the <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-intermarriage-viewed-treason/8459">“seducing” of Jewish girls was “another form of war” by Arab men</a>.</li>
<li>In 2010, Eliyahu and other state-employed rabbis <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-turns-blind-eye-racist-state-employed-rabbis/9134">issued a ruling</a> telling Jews not to sell or rent property to members of the country’s Palestinian Arab minority, who make up a fifth of the population.</li>
<li>Eliyahu has led efforts to prevent Arab students from living in Safad, stating, “<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/rabbis-provoke-riots-israels-most-racist-city/9103">When a non-Jew moves in, residents begin to worry about their children</a>, about their daughters. Many Arab students have been known to date Jewish girls.”</li>
<li>Eliyahu has publicly denigrated Arabs and Muslims, stating, “whenever I’m interviewed <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/node/9878">I ask the interviewer if they would want an Arab to live in their neighborhood</a>.”</li>
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<h3>Violating neutrality and respect for international humanitarian law</h3>
<p>As a member organization of ICRC, Magen David Adom is presumably committed to the <a href="http://www.icrc.org/eng/who-we-are/mandate/index.jsp">mission of the ICRC</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The work of the ICRC <strong>is based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949</strong>, their Additional Protocols, its Statutes – and those of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – and the resolutions of the International Conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. The ICRC is an independent, <strong>neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence.</strong> It takes action in response to emergencies and at the same time <strong>promotes respect for international humanitarian law</strong> and its implementation in national law.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>What could be more contrary to that mission than Israel’s MDA appointing Shmuel Eliyahu who not only defends and advocates mass, indiscriminate violence against civilians, but is a racist par excellence?</strong></p>
<p>It should be recalled that there was a years long campaign by Israel and Zionist organizations to get MDA accepted into the ICRC. If MDA does not completely dissociate itself from, and condemn racist inciters like Eliyahu, perhaps it should be expelled.</p>
<p>Moreover, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society should review any cooperation with MDA.</p>
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<strong>Photography</strong></p>
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<td><strong>Ministery declares state of emergency &#8211; <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#ff0000;"><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/gazas-ministry-of-health-to-declare-state-of-emergency/" target="_blank">Photography</a></span></strong></td>
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<td><strong>Gaza Health Care in Crisis &#8211; January 2012 &#8211; </strong><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/action-alert-%E2%96%B6-gaza-health-care-is-in-danger-in-pictures/" target="_blank">Photography</a></td>
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<p><strong>Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention</strong> clearly establish that Israel, as the occupying power, not only has a <strong>duty to ensure medical supplies</strong> reach hospitals in the OPT, but to <strong>ensure and maintain the services</strong> of the hospitals too. As High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, other states not only have a moral duty but also a legal obligation to ensure Israel abides by its commitments to the protected population of the OPT.</p>
<p><strong>UN Convention of the Rights of the Child,</strong> As a States Party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel is obliged under <strong>Article 24 of the treaty</strong> to recognise the right of every child under its effective jurisdiction “to the enjoyment of the<strong> highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment</strong> of illness and rehabilitation of health. States Parties shall strive to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health care services”.</p>
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<p><strong>Update as per June 3, 2012</strong></p>
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<li><strong>June 14, 2012</strong> | WHO: Gaza closure compromises right to health | <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=495415" target="_blank"><strong>Maan</strong></a></li>
<li><strong>May 29, 2012</strong> | Fuel Crisis Impacts Water and Sanitation &amp; Health Services in Gaza | <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-ojo" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a></li>
<li><strong>May 20, 2012</strong> | &#8220;Long and Healthy Lives&#8221; of Babies in Danger as Vaccins are Depleted <em>| </em><a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-o19" target="_blank"><strong>Alert</strong></a></li>
<li><strong>May 18, 2012</strong> | Lives of more than <span style="text-decoration:underline;">400 kidney patients</span> at risk in Gaza | <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-nZs" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a></li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>note occpal</strong></span></span> | June 3, 2012 | At this moment 204 types of medication and 218 types of medical consumables are depleted completely. 200 others are on their way to depletion. Including zero stock of Thalassamia and Cancer medications are not available.</p>
<p>The fuel crisis prevents normal operation of nurseries, ICU &amp; heart units and the emergency generators will encounter problems to face normal surgery schedules. Due to blackouts of power, also sewerage, water pumps and all operating on power shuts down which poses extra health risks which is unacceptable.</p>
<p>The international community though, is not pressuring Israel though about it&#8217;s killing by proxy policies which causes 1.7 million people in Gaza now to be effectively in a state of emergency and severe deprivation.</p>
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<p><strong>More Resources or related information</strong>:</p>
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<li><strong>June 9, 2012</strong> | Gaza health ministry cautions over 450 medical items running out | <a href="http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&amp;lang=2&amp;NewsID=73657&amp;CatID=13&amp;Type=Home&amp;GType=1" target="_blank">Petra Jordan News Agency</a></li>
<li>Over 173 Children died due 2 obstructed healthcare: <strong><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/factsheet-on-gazan-childrens-access-to-medical-care-by-al-mezan/" target="_blank">Report Al-Mezan</a></strong></li>
<li>Download the <strong><a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/fullreport_173.pdf" target="_blank">Full Report of Al-Mezan</a> (PDF)</strong></li>
<li>Palestinian deaths following infringement of right to medical treatment &#8211; B&#8217; Tselem<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/mPHskr" target="_blank">Report</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>35 babies died</strong> at Israeli checkpoints &#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-fSy" target="_blank"><strong>Report</strong></a></li>
<li>Israel Kills Dialysis in Gaza &#8211; <strong>450</strong> Patients Lives Are In Danger<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-gzS" target="_blank">Report</a><br />
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<li>Dialysis in Paralysis | Electronic Intifada<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-aXf" target="_blank">Report</a><br />
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<li>Factsheet on Gazan Children’s Access to Medical Care &#8211; Al Mezan |<strong> 173</strong> children died<strong> &#8211; <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/factsheet-on-gazan-childrens-access-to-medical-care-by-al-mezan/" target="_blank">Report</a><br />
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<li>UK Diplomat wife dies after forced to renew Jerusalem permit<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-gE7" target="_blank">Report</a></strong></li>
<li>2 Children &amp; Lives of Dozens of Others Endangered Israel&#8217;s Infringement of Medical Care<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://t.co/DnVbSG4k" target="_blank">Report<br />
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<li>Infant close 2 death as Israel denies medication<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://t.co/6rSnBpbz" target="_blank">Report</a></strong></li>
<li>Starve Them &#8211; Shoot Them &#8211; Then Give Them Cancer<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://bit.ly/iZF6vI" target="_blank">Report</a></strong></li>
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<div>PUT PALESTINIANS ON A DIET &#8211; Media Bury documents revealing israel&#8217;s deliberate policy of near starvation for Gaza<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/101117_put_the_palestinians.php" target="_blank">Report</a><br />
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<li>Israel to Supreme Court to prevent exposure of document containing minimal calorie requirements for Gaza &#8211; May1, 2011<strong> &#8211; <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/state-appeals-to-supreme-court-to-prevent-exposure-of-document-containing-minimal-calorie-requirements-for-residents-of-the-gaza-strip/" target="_blank">Report</a><br />
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<li>Israel Restricts the Access of Gaza Patients to Urgent Medical Treatment if their Condition is Not Life-Threatening | In violation of Medical Ethics and International Law | Al Mezan | June 30, 2010<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://www.mezan.org/en/details.php?id=10398&amp;ddname=torture&amp;id_dept=31&amp;p=center" target="_blank">Report</a><br />
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<li>Children and Armed Conflict: Developments in the OPT | UN | April 13, 2010<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/palestine.html" target="_blank">Report</a></strong></li>
<li>Water apartheid leaves Palestinian children ill | <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/WELDhq0YQP8/11321" target="_blank"><strong>Report</strong></a></li>
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<strong>Medical care by asked/forced collaboration<br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;">Palestinians hoping to leave Gaza Strip asked to collaborate with Israel</span> &#8211; PHR Isael &#8211; Dec 28, 2011<strong> &#8211; <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#808000;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/28/palestinians-gaza-strip-collaborate-israel?newsfeed=true" target="_blank"><span style="color:#808000;text-decoration:underline;">Report</span></a></span></span><br />
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<strong>Torture, Healthcare or neglect of healthcare in Prisons</strong></h3>
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<li><strong><strong></strong></strong>UFree: Israeli doctors conceal torture incidents in Israeli jails | <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-jsu" target="_blank"><strong>UFree Report</strong></a></li>
<li>Doctoring the Evidence Abandoning the Victim &#8211; Complicity of Israeli physicians in torture &#8211; PHR<strong> &#8211; <a href="http://www.phr.org.il/uploaded/Doctoring%20the%20Evidence%20Abandoning%20the%20Victim_November2011.pdf" target="_blank">Report</a></strong><strong><strong></strong></strong><strong><br />
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<strong>Video</strong></h3>
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<li><span style="color:#000000;">Gaza Siege devastates Health care</span> &#8211; Jan 2, 2011<strong> &#8211; <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#808000;"><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/gaza-siege-devastates-health-care-video-interview-with-lydiadeleeuw/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#808000;text-decoration:underline;">video</span></a></span></strong></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">Avoidable Death of Pregnant women &amp; their Unborn at Israeli Checkpoints</span><strong> &#8211; <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#ff0000;"><a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-fSy" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#808000;text-decoration:underline;">video</span> </span></a></span></strong></li>
<li>If you have no idea about avoidable mortality by Israel&#8217;s deliberate policies: <span style="color:#000000;">Meet BABY FIRAS</span><strong> &#8211; <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#808000;"><a href="http://t.co/WrQ0CjAc" target="_blank"><span style="color:#808000;text-decoration:underline;">video</span></a></span></strong></li>
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<span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SHOCKING REPORT</span> ABOUT EFFECTS FOR HEALTH BY POLICIES &amp; DISCRIMINATION OF MEDICAL CARE &amp; ACCESS TO CARE:</strong></span><br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Arab-Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Discrimination in Access to Health; Lower Health</span></span> &#8211; PHR &#8211;<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#808000;"> <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=186&amp;ItemID=1172" target="_blank"><span style="color:#808000;text-decoration:underline;">Report</span></a></span></span><br />
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<em></em>While in the horrible holocaust, 1 in 6, so 1 million people died of the Nazi but exactly similar deliberate deprivation, Israel is doing exactly the same to Palestinians. Research (see link below) showed the annual deathrate by violent &amp; passive aggression is about 5000 deaths a year. Called Avoidable mortality or Excess Death.</p>
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<span style="color:#000000;"><strong>The Palestinian Genocide</strong> &#8211; The fact which are being silenced | <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/" target="_blank">Research</a></span></span></strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Avoidable Mortality</strong> &#8211;<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="http://t.co/QuzKbtaA" target="_blank">Research by Dr. Gideon Polya<br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;">For all related news about health / related issues in Palestine &#8211;<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#808000;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/category/health/"><span style="color:#808000;text-decoration:underline;">Category Health </span></a></strong></span></span></span></li>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">All massacred Palestinians |</span></span></span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/irememberthevictims/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;">2011/2012<br />
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<li><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="http://bit.ly/f0sVsF" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;">All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians</span></a></strong></span></span></li>
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<h3><strong>Special Topics</strong></h3>
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<li><strong>Special Topic | <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/special-topics/children-of-palestine/">Palestinian Children</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Special Topic</strong> | <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/special-topics/colonialism-ethnic-cleansing/"><strong>Ethnic Cleansing</strong></a></li>
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<h3>In pictures</h3>
<div style="width: 272px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/children-of-palestine/"><img src="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/children_of_palestine_avatar.jpg?w=262&#038;h=177" alt="" width="262" height="177" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Children of Palestine &#8211; in photos (Click to see the full album)</p></div>
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<strong>More pictures in the Gallery</strong><strong> <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/images-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1/" target="_blank">Images | الصور</a></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><em><span style="color:#000000;">How many more dead corpses of Palestinians and their children does the international community need to see in order to act? </span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed?</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> How long so the world intervenes in this ongoing warcrime and it will be stopped once and for all?</span><br />
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<p><strong>For the sake of children and ill people in Palestine, share this post as wide as you can and keep sharing it. Health is no choice for many, right to medical care is a Human Right. Infringement of such is a passive form of aggression which policies Israel deliberately deploys with the intention to ethnic cleanse.</strong></p></blockquote>
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