- OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (IAP News)
-- Zionist regime authorities have destroyed a shipment of medicine, vitamins
and other food supplements to disabled Palestinian children in the refugee
camps in the Gaza Strip, some of whom suffer from down syndrome and malnutrition.
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- According to officials of al-Awda hospital in Gaza,
the shipment is worth tens of thousands of dollar.
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- "The shipment was held at the airport in Tel Aviv
and we were told that certain documents were needed. However when the documents
were provided and every time we submitted a document, another was demanded,"
said Dr. M. al Farra of the Awda hospital.
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- "Eventually, the Israeli government destroyed
the shipment of the vitamins without any explanation."
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- The shipment in question was donated by the US-based
Holy Land Trust, a Christian charity.
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- A UN report last month accused the Israeli regime of
preventing food and water from hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
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- Palestinian sources said Israeli port authorities were
holding up hundreds of tons of food materials donated to the Palestinians
without any explanation.
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- A spokesman for a Hebron-based charity accused the
Israeli government of seeking "to starve Palestinian children."
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- "I think they are waging a war of starvation against
us. It is a kind of holocaust," said the official who asked for anonymity.
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- The Israeli occupation army tightly sealed the occupied
territories when the Aqsa intifada broke out more than three years ago.
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- Since then, Palestinian population centers have been
reduced to virtual detention camps, with Palestinians barred from traveling
outside their immediate population centers.
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- Israel has also been restricting foreign food aid to
the Palestinians, pushing many impoverished Palestinian families to the
edge of starvation.
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- http://www.iap.org/vita.htm
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