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Red Cross: Israel worsening Palestinian humanitarian crisis
By Reuters
Tags: human rights 

Israeli restrictions have caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank that is growing worse, leaving hospitals unable to treat the sick and keeping farmers off their land, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the humanitarian agency called on Israel to "lift the retaliatory measures which are paralyzing life in Gaza" and urged Palestinian factions to stop targeting civilian areas and putting lives at risk.

"The measures imposed by Israel come at an enormous humanitarian cost, leaving the people living under occupation with just enough to survive, but not enough to live a normal and dignified life," said Beatrice Megevand Roggo, the ICRC's head of operations for the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Palestinian population has "effectively become a hostage to the conflict," she said.

The ICRC said Israel's "severe restrictions" on the movement of people and goods, imposed to tighten security, had deepened economic woes and affected every aspect of life in the West Bank and Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

"The Palestinian Territories face a deep human crisis, where millions of people are denied their human dignity. Not once in a while, but every day," the Geneva-based agency said.

Most crossing points have been closed to the 1.4 million Palestinians living in Gaza since the violent clashes between Hamas and Fatah-affiliated forces that led to a Hamas takeover in June this year.

The ICRC estimated that 5,000 farmers in Gaza and their families relying on exports of cash crops like carnations and strawberries were "about to suffer a 100 percent drop in sales."

"The harvest season for these important crops started in June, but the embargo on exports has left them rotting in containers at the crossing points," it said.

Getting medical care or studying in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel or abroad has also become "nearly impossible," except for those needing life-saving treatment, the ICRC said.

Some 823 sick people - nearly one-quarter of the 3,568 requiring medical care outside Gaza - were prevented from leaving the territory for treatment over the last six months, spokesman Florian Westphal said.

Administrative and security clearance delays "have resulted in the deaths of three patients in favor of whom the ICRC had intervened," he said, noting restrictions had also caused a shortage of drugs for cancer patients and a lack of spare parts for emergency wards and operating theaters in Gaza's hospitals.

In the West Bank, the ICRC said many Palestinians have been powerless to prevent the confiscation of their land.

As a result of the West Bank separation fence, which runs partially inside Palestinian territory, it said "large tracts of farming land have been out of reach for farmers," who must fight through "a bureaucratic maze" to get permits needed to reach their fields.

Many applications are rejected on security grounds, which "may include a relative once having been in an Israeli prison."

The ICRC depends on its neutrality to distribute emergency aid and help victims of conflict and violence around the world.

It stressed that while Israel has the right to protect its population, "there should always be a sound balance between Israel's security concerns and the protection of the rights and liberties of the Palestinians living under occupation."

"So far, the balance between the legitimate Israeli security concerns and the right of the Palestinian people to live a normal life has not been struck," it said.



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      1.   INVADE, RETAKE W.BANK, GAZA, SOLVE ALL CRISES))))) 16:38  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 13/12/07
      2.   No food for Pals? No problem - 16:51  |  angry as hell 13/12/07
      3.   The Right Balance Hasn`t Been Struck My SSSS 17:09  |  Brad 13/12/07
      4.   Red Cross missed the most importants point: Hizb U-Tahrir 17:10  |  Genuine Tosefta 13/12/07
      5.   Hey Red Cross: Heard From Gilad Yet? 17:13  |  Cool Tex 13/12/07
      6.   The only people worsening the palestinian humanitarian crisis... 17:13  |  Jordan 13/12/07
      7.   ICRC..neutrality..emergency aid..help victims of conflict..violen 17:14  |  Genuine Tosefta 13/12/07
      8.   it`s in their control 17:16  |  Esteban 13/12/07
      9.   F..the ICRC,they`ve lied about having access to Shalit 17:22  |  Absolute Sweden 13/12/07
      10.   ICRC incompetence 17:22  |  Nik "Banned" Miller 13/12/07
      11.   how about Shalit, Goldwasser & Regev Red Cross? 17:27  |  Israeli 13/12/07
      12.   Palistinian Crisis 17:29  |  Morris Amsel 13/12/07
      13.   bias report I`m sure 17:38  |  edgar 13/12/07
      14.   Red Cross - Mouthpiece of Arabs 17:40  |  * BEN JABO 13/12/07
      15.   But the kassams continue and so does the supply of electricity ! 17:42  |  redmike 13/12/07
      16.   hey red cross heard of kassamim? 17:43  |  moshe 13/12/07
      17.   Humanitarian Crisis 17:44  |  JB 13/12/07
      18.   Red Cross - shame on you! 17:49  |  Manashe 13/12/07
      19.   We need to disown Israel .... 17:56  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      20.   Money greed of ICRC officials,a Danish example 17:56  |  Absolute Sweden 13/12/07
      21.   The Red Cross should ask WHY? 17:58  |  Alicia 13/12/07
      22.   What ..me worry? 18:04  |  Nat weinstein 13/12/07
      23.   The palestinians 18:05  |  Peter SM 13/12/07
      24.   #19 DEMENTED DUTCH - You should be ashamed 18:10  |  * BEN JABO 13/12/07
      25.   Terrorism - What Isreal Does Best 18:17  |  gearoid 13/12/07
      26.   So what? 18:18  |  Mark Lincoln 13/12/07
      27.   Dutch - STOP HIDING BEHIND YOUR COMPUTER... COME 18:28  |  n 13/12/07
      28.   Absolute Sweden: this will make you scream! 18:29  |  Alicia 13/12/07
      29.   Gazans look well nourished,clothed compared to African Refugees 18:33  |  Alan 13/12/07
      30.   If they are so concerned 18:34  |  Ron 13/12/07
      31.   A Big Thank You to the International Red cross 18:42  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      32.   Hate and fear are blinding us. 18:42  |  Terry 13/12/07
      33.   The people that voted Hamas into power aer suffering .... oh dear 18:43  |  Not Olmerts friend 13/12/07
      34.   Dutch #19 18:44  |  Gary 13/12/07
      35.   # 22 Nat Weinstein 18:44  |  Nick Ferriman 13/12/07
      36.   # 21 Alicia 18:50  |  Nick Ferriman 13/12/07
      37.   Dutch#19 - you never "OWNED" Israel 18:51  |  William 13/12/07
      38.   With all the Arab oil money 18:52  |  David 13/12/07
      39.   21# Alicia 19:00  |  Anne 13/12/07
      40.   31 hey dutch, "...they come back sick to their stomachs." 19:05  |  angry as hell 13/12/07
      41.   Anne and Nick: WHY Israel needs self-defend? 19:11  |  Alicia 13/12/07
      42.   Palestinians worsening Sderot humanitarian crisis 19:15  |  Ben 13/12/07
      43.   What do the Pals expect?? 19:16  |  DC Dave 13/12/07
      44.   IRC 19:16  |  TelHadar 13/12/07
      45.   Dear Neutral Humanitarian Red Cross 19:19  |  lily 13/12/07
      46.   #35 Ferriman the racist 19:20  |  peter 13/12/07
      47.   Red Cross failing its mission due failure to maintain neutrality 19:23  |  Dr. L. Brnd 13/12/07
      48.   Anne: Because you are obvioulsy stupid... 19:27  |  Ben 13/12/07
      49.   William, You may be a proud and successful naton 19:43  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      50.   Cannot put humantiarian crisis above self-preservation 19:49  |  JJ 13/12/07
      51.   #40 Israeli arrogance 19:51  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      52.   My thoughts exactly, William 19:52  |  JJ 13/12/07
      53.   Brnd 19:54  |  Palestinian Brit 13/12/07
      54.   To end crisis send terrorist settlers back home to Israel or Euro 19:55  |  anti-racist 13/12/07
      55.   Who would believe that the grandchildren of Holocaust victims 19:56  |  Apartheid 13/12/07
      56.   Let them complain to hamas, they elected these terrorists. 20:15  |  Avraham 13/12/07
      57.   Dr. Brnd, Your laughable nonsense 20:22  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      58.   Zero Truth in red cross Hogwash!! 20:23  |  Hader 13/12/07
      59.   55 aparth What on earth could you possibly know of the Holocaust? 20:27  |  son of a survivor 13/12/07
      60.   Humanitarian crisis 20:31  |  Bruria L. 13/12/07
      61.   #55Apartheid 20:37  |  Janice 13/12/07
      62.   #55 Israeli policies in the territory like life under Pinochet`s 20:40  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      63.   To Dutch - Where is your shame? 20:49  |  Zeidan 13/12/07
      64.   # 1 Voice of stupidity 20:52  |  Realistic Arab 13/12/07
      65.   Beware of the trolls!! 21:02  |  Stan 13/12/07
      66.   This bit that dutch & co will ignore 21:02  |  Adrian de Klerk 13/12/07
      67.   So much hatred 21:04  |  Boycott 13/12/07
      68.   palis did it to themselves! 21:06  |  Igor D. 13/12/07
      69.   israel has been blockaded by arabs 21:07  |  rich 13/12/07
      70.   Janice - weapons come in so can humanitarian goods!! 21:09  |  Mustafa 13/12/07
      71.   50 JJ, How distorted and over reactive your thinking is 21:11  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      72.   Imagine.... 21:12  |  Myles McSwiney 13/12/07
      73.   Worse than Auswitz 21:20  |  Gene 13/12/07
      74.   #55-oh the Apartheid, oh the melodrama 21:20  |  peter 13/12/07
      75.   Nick Ferriman,Dutch,Palestinian Brit,the time has long since come 21:32  |  lakshmi 13/12/07
      76.   Shalit and the border fence 21:33  |  B 13/12/07
      77.   #61 Janice: who is bullying who? 21:34  |  Alicia 13/12/07
      78.   Hamas restrictions are even worse! 21:34  |  Jon 13/12/07
      79.   Not enough Pals dead to satisfy the Israeli right 21:44  |  ERipley 13/12/07
      80.   red cross 22:06  |  manny 13/12/07
      81.   A normal dignified life only comes about when rockets cease 22:09  |  Jimy 13/12/07
      82.   #57 Dutch: maybe invest in reading actual news, not just TalkBack 22:10  |  Dr. L. Brnd 13/12/07
      83.   #26 - Mark Lincoln 22:12  |  Yitz 13/12/07
      84.   To Ben/ 48 22:21  |  Anne 13/12/07
      85.   Apartheid (#55) so what are you saying 22:37  |  Gil 13/12/07
      86.   Let them complain to Hamas 22:52  |  Sabra 13/12/07
      87.   Dutch 19 22:54  |  Sabra 13/12/07
      88.   lakshmi fails with Clean Clean Gaza LIE, now aims to move WORLD 23:06  |  CK Tan 13/12/07
      89.   To Zeidan #63 23:07  |  dovale 13/12/07
      90.   Red Cross? 23:20  |  Swishy Swiss 13/12/07
      91.   We have boycotted Izrail for 60 years but we demand that they 23:28  |  ARAB BOYCOTT 13/12/07
      92.   We discriminate against everybody else but others are not allowed 23:32  |  ARAB APARTHEID 13/12/07
      93.   Picking on Israel again 23:38  |  Heinrich 13/12/07
      94.   dovale, tatale, idiotale come to mamale for a good spanking 23:39  |  Genuine Tosefta 13/12/07
      95.   Saved by the red cross! 23:49  |  Mark 13/12/07
      96.   83 CK Tan,johnboy is one of the most sober posters on this site 23:51  |  lakshmi 13/12/07
      97.   #79 ERipley - Facts & context are NOT important 23:52  |  CK Tan 13/12/07
      98.   Poor misunderstood Dutch 00:00  |  leo 14/12/07
      99.   Red Cross is a joke 00:15  |  Serge 14/12/07
      100.   "Normal and dignified Life" Pablum 00:49  |  FOX 14/12/07
      101.   Mark Lincoln and the cult 00:54  |  FOX 14/12/07
      102.   #66 Adrian....Asharq Alawsat thinks Hamas 01:01  |  Lynn 14/12/07
      103.   genuine tosefta 94 01:02  |  realism 14/12/07
      104.   You think 01:12  |  Billy Jack 14/12/07
      105.   Anne: Again you are showing your stupidity 01:13  |  Ben 14/12/07
      106.   Red Cross and Israeli humanitarian sufferings 01:29  |  Jez 14/12/07
      107.   If the population would not support the 01:36  |  TOMY 14/12/07
      108.   COOL TEX 01:40  |  DANNY. 14/12/07
      109.   "Israel!", "Israel!", "Israel!" ... but ... 01:50  |  Jesus 14/12/07
      110.   lakshmi may I suggest a good read 01:52  |  Lynn 14/12/07
      111.   TO NO 3. BRAD MY FRIEND 01:53  |  DANNY. 14/12/07
      112.   #107 Danny..IRC sure as hell isn`t doing much for Darfur 01:54  |  Lynn 14/12/07
      113.   TO NO 11 ISRAELI. GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY AMEN AMEN. 01:57  |  DANNY. 14/12/07
      114.   So, all you talkback zionists simply trash the ICRC 02:04  |  Johnboy 14/12/07
      115.   #55 Apartheid....NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! 02:04  |  Lynn 14/12/07
      116.   # 35 Nick Ferriman 02:07  |  17 14/12/07
      117.   The Red Cross has no right to criticize Israel 02:10  |  David ben Avraham 14/12/07
      118.   #59 son of a survivor 02:12  |  WWII survivor 14/12/07
      119.   There is a choice 02:16  |  Chick 14/12/07
      120.   APARTHEID WHO would believe they Retaliate!.Read the whole Red X 02:34  |  PETER SM 14/12/07
      121.   The Red Cross 02:39  |  Connie 14/12/07
      122.   RED CROSS` BIAS 02:48  |  VICTIMSofARAB TERROR 14/12/07
      123.   ben re anne 02:49  |  tom 14/12/07
      124.   re Israeli restrictions have caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza 02:52  |  Smadar Eilat 14/12/07
      125.   49 Dutch 03:03  |  c 14/12/07
      126.   49 DUTCH 03:04  |  Chasaboy 14/12/07
      127.   49 DUTCH 03:09  |  Chasaboy 14/12/07
      128.   What does "Never again" have to do with brutalizing other people? 03:42  |  Apartheid 14/12/07
      129.   JOHNBOY.Red Cross impartiality IS tainted. 03:45  |  PETER SM 14/12/07
      130.   `Collective punishment` 03:56  |  jjvanka 14/12/07
      131.   cos videogameboy says so 04:03  |  peter 14/12/07
      132.   110Lynn,Al Arabiya! 04:07  |  lakshmi 14/12/07
      133.   Yirz 04:13  |  Mark Lincoln 14/12/07
      134.   israel has worsened their humanitarian crisis for 60 yrears 04:24  |  eric 14/12/07
      135.   #112 ICRC and Darfur 04:24  |  BBSNews 14/12/07
      136.   EGYPT THE REAL CRIMINAL 04:27  |  Arik Silverman 14/12/07
      137.   Nothing - re #128 04:30  |  jjvanka 14/12/07
      138.   Chick #119 04:39  |  jjvanka 14/12/07
      139.   Self brutalizing Arabs do not deserve ICRC pity or anyone else`s 04:45  |  ARAB APARTHEID 14/12/07
      140.   Self contradicting WWII Liar 04:53  |  Genuine Tosefta 14/12/07
      141.   #115 Lynn 04:54  |  BBSNews 14/12/07
      142.   Eric Shmendrick the ignorant how do you count 60 years? 05:03  |  Genuine Tosefta 14/12/07
      143.   #`s 1 thru 18; and again 15 thru 17... 05:06  |  eric 14/12/07
      144.   #140 05:22  |  jjvanka 14/12/07
      145.   #135 `It`s all Egypt`s fault` 05:22  |  BBSNews 14/12/07
      146.   #129 Red Cross `bias` 05:43  |  BBSNews 14/12/07
      147.   #133 - Mark says I`m a war criminal 06:00  |  yitz 14/12/07
      148.   #129 You beggar belief, PETER SM 06:01  |  Johnboy 14/12/07
      149.   #131 And just what *is* it with the name "peter"? 06:08  |  Johnboy 14/12/07
      150.   137 silvermann 06:40  |  Shoshanna 14/12/07
      151.   No humanitarian crisis 06:46  |  Artie 14/12/07
      152.   humanitarian crisi- Palestinians 06:54  |  Rachel Simson 14/12/07
      153.   # 18 Menasches Comment :clarification of CRYSTALS 07:26  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 14/12/07
      154.   Rachel Simpson just about sums it up 07:56  |  RM 14/12/07
      155.   Richel Simpson just about sums it up 08:01  |  rm 14/12/07
      156.   # 143 to the "less than genuine tosefta" 08:10  |  eric 14/12/07
      157.   #157 eric is less than a fool and a real historian 08:33  |  victor hardman 14/12/07
      158.   SDEROT CRISIS!! MUST SEE VIDEO!!! 09:54  |  dr Eric 14/12/07
      159.   JOHNBOY Are you saying the Red Cross should should ignore 10:01  |  PETER SM 14/12/07
      160.   And Israel`s Response to This Report? 10:25  |  Yaakov Sullivan 14/12/07
      161.   Fox- Normal and Dignified Pablum 10:31  |  Robin 14/12/07
      162.   In brief 10:36  |  Dav 14/12/07
      163.   #159 I`m saying you are ignorant, PETER SM 10:55  |  Johnboy 14/12/07
      164.   # 157 pssssst! hey victor...consulted your "radon" map lately? 10:59  |  eric 14/12/07
      165.   #145-46 BBSNEWS , Thank you, Right on point! 12:19  |  Dutch 14/12/07
      166.   If the Pals can bring in weapons, WHY not food? 12:22  |  Alicia 14/12/07
      167.   BBSNews: kidnapped Israeli soldiers not in humanitarian crises? 12:35  |  Alicia 14/12/07
      168.   #82 Dr. Brnd, increase your sholarship 12:45  |  Dutch 14/12/07
      169.   cos videogameboy pouts, it`s so 13:04  |  peter 14/12/07
      170.   #75 Greetings Lakshmi and thank you 13:39  |  Dutch 14/12/07
      171.   Offensive Red Cross symbol 13:45  |  nina 14/12/07
      172.   So many 14:54  |  T A Sheppard 14/12/07
      173.   #169 peter`s ignorance, redux 15:16  |  Johnboy 14/12/07
      174.   the red cross that refused enntry to MDA 17:58  |  zionist forever 14/12/07
      175.   #128 Apartheid - I`ll explain it to you 18:07  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      176.   #175 Jabo on apartheid 19:09  |  BBSNews 14/12/07
      177.   I am confused: Holocaust? Settlements? 21:37  |  s.charles 14/12/07
      178.   Choices have consequences even for... 21:55  |  Scharker Yid 14/12/07
      179.   I notice that the ICRC only calls on Israel 22:42  |  Gee 14/12/07
      180.   Israel is never the problem correct? 23:47  |  Come on now 14/12/07
      181.   #179 on racism - 1st try 02:45  |  BBSNews 15/12/07
      182.   #96 lakshmi says she is an expert on international law 04:56  |  CK Tan 15/12/07
      183.   #182, CK Tan to Lakshmi..... 06:07  |  Silvienne 15/12/07
      184.   Shalom Freedman, My Response to you 10:37  |  Dutch 15/12/07
      185.   To S Charles - Serious Misinformation!! 18:54  |  Dr Eric 15/12/07
      186.   # 185 to dr. eric; well then either you`re blind...(links incl) 22:49  |  eric 15/12/07
      187.   Jewish only roads 23:10  |  BBSNews 15/12/07
      188.   #187, BBSNews, "settler only" roads... 05:22  |  Silvienne 16/12/07
      189.   #188 silverlene the reason is 07:00  |  Adrian de Klerk 16/12/07
      190.   # 189 to adrian de klerk 10:00  |  eric 16/12/07
      191.   #190, eric... 01:50  |  Silvienne 17/12/07
      192.   Silvienne, your feeling is wide spread in the US 08:05  |  Dutch 17/12/07
      193.   # 191 to silvienne 08:44  |  eric 17/12/07
      194.   #193, eric.... 20:05  |  Silvienne 17/12/07
      195.   #192 DEMENTED DUTCH to SILVIENNE 23:17  |  * BEN JABO 17/12/07
      196.   #94 SILVIENNE - Don`t hold your breath 23:19  |  * BEN JABO 17/12/07
      197.   #196 Silvienne re: Eric 00:19  |  * BEN JABO 18/12/07
      198.   #195, Ben Jabo re; Dutch... 03:28  |  Silvienne 18/12/07
      199.   #1I notice you are full of it, Gee 10:44  |  Johnboy 18/12/07
      200.   #196 Silvienne re: Dutch 17:52  |  * BEN JABO 18/12/07
      201.   WHAT THE RED CROSS IS REALLY GOOD FOR 17:55  |  *BEN JABO 18/12/07
      202.   ben jabber re red cross 21:32  |  realism 18/12/07
      203.   Why Can`t Jordan provide needed support? 17:59  |  Moshe 19/12/07
      204.   Israel and the arabs 17:20  |  Joy 08/05/08
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