Rapports

Médecins du Monde-Switzerland denounces the death of five members of the Palestinian medical profession in the exercise of their duties Monday, 11 March 2002,12.20 p.m. -- Following the decision of the government of Ariel Sharon to invade certain refugee camps, Médecins…

Yesterday, March 7th, two emergency medical personnel were shot and killed. Mr Kamal Salem, was shot and killed while responding to a call in a UN ambulance. Mr Ibrahim Assad was killed and 3 other staff injured while attending…

The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Peter Hansen, visited Tulkarem today, in an attempt to assess personally the situation in the two refugee camps in the town. On Wednesday, 6 March, Israeli Security Forces had entered the camps, initiating violent armed clashes,…

Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank, Richard Cook, has expressed his serious concern at the incursion of Israeli Security Forces into the UNRWA Girls School in Tulkarem and the use of the premises to detain hundreds of…

(New York, March 9, 2002) -- Human Rights Watch today called on the Israeli government to instruct soldiers to immediately refrain from attacking medical personnel in the West Bank and Gaza. During the past week, at least three ambulances…

Geneva, March 8th, 2002 - The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), which coordinates the world's largest network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) fighting against torture, strongly condemns the Israeli Security Forces' harassment and interrogation of Khader Shkirat,…

Following Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's earlier declaration to hit the Palestinians hard, this morning, Israeli forces and tanks, backed by Apache helicopters, entered the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. Israeli armed forces also entered the nearby town of Beit Jala…

Quatre secouristes tués et 4 secouristes blessés : Médecins du Monde condamne les tirs répétés qui touchent les ambulances et blessent ou tuent le personnel soignant dans l'exercice de ses fonctions, en Cisjordanie et dans la bande de Gaza. Dans…

A Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic, 40-year-old Ibrahim Assad was killed in his ambulance in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank last night, by Israeli army fire, as he was responding to an emergency call.…

Flagrant disrespect for humanitarian principles - safety of relief workers and access to the victims of war- threatens the provision of emergency health care; Intensified military action aggravates the humanitarian situation of Palestinian refugees - the poorest…