Health ministry: Babies born with deformities in Gaza due to siege

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Health ministry: Babies born with deformities in Gaza due to siege
[ 10/05/2008 - 03:01 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Newly born babies in the Gaza Strip are born with deformities due to their mothers' lack of proper nutrition as a result of the Israeli siege and scarcity of food and money, a health ministry official in the PA caretaker government said on Saturday. Dr. Salah Al-Rantisi, the chairman of the women health department in the ministry, said that another factor was the shortage in medication as a result of the siege, which led to the spread of anemia and malnutrition among pregnant women. He said that the result was that many of the newly born babies were born with deformities in the bones and other abnormalities in addition to having weights far below the average. Most pregnant women need certain medicines that are not found in the Strip, Rantisi said, adding that most of the families in Gaza also could not afford to buy those medicines if ever found. The health official warned that the lives of tens of unborn babies are threatened as a result of the absence of adequate equipment to deal with those problems.

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re babies born deformed in Gaza
Name: Chafeeka Mezzawee	Date: 10/05/2008 23:13:29
Country: United States	Job:
I wonder as an Arab, Why be dependent on Israel and blame Israel for all Gaza's ills. What happened to Brother Egypt next door, why cant arab help arab without being and blaming Israel dependent? After all, The Jews moved out of Gaza period. What else do Gazans want?> as for signing peace with Hamas there is no peace understanding under Islamic law as they follow. no talking to dhimmis so what peace are you referring to? a Hudna? like a lease on quiet for some time and then what? thats Peace? even we the moderate Arabs are scoffing at that.

Hang in there
Name: Palestinian Muslim	Date: 11/05/2008 00:23:08
Country: Sweden	Job:
This is the silent killing going on. The zionists starve people and deprive them from getting medical care and medicine, as a result people die or suffer but these people do not make it in to the statistics that show how many have been killed by the zionists. Allmighty Allah is bigger than zionism. A short ayah from the quran: La tahinno wa la ta7zano wa antom al a3lawna an kontom Mo2meneen. 3:139

To Chafeeka Mezzawee
Name: Mahmoud	Date: 12/05/2008 01:03:58
Country: United Kingdom	Job: Retired
First of all you do not sound like an Arab to me and even if you were, you sound to be a very Zionist Arab because you are just repeating the same garbage the Zionist media feeds you. First: The fuel supplied to Gaza is not free, in fact the gas that the Israeli occupation buys from Egypt very cheaply, they sell to Gazans for about 10 times the price. Second: Israeli occupation soldiers left the Gaza Strip, but they still control all its borders including the sea, turning it into the largest concentration camp in the world; fishermen cannot fish, farmers cannot farm and 1.5 million people being starved…(cont'd below)

To Chafeeka Mezzawee (2)
Name: Mahmoud	Date: 12/05/2008 01:08:51
Country: United Kingdom	Job: Retired
Third: What else Gazans want? As the majority of Gazan's are refugees from villages and towns destroyed by the Zionists in 1948; they want to return to their stolen homes and lands, is that simple enough for you to understand? Fourth: The rubbish you write about no peace understandings under Islamic laws and no talking to dhimis shows how ignorant you are, because Muslims throughout history had peace treaties with their enemies. But you are confusing two things: peace and surrender; Palestinians want peace but not at the expense of their rights. Get those rights restored to the Palestinians and you will have peace in Palestine.

Thanks Mahmod
Name: Palestinian Muslim	Date: 12/05/2008 18:22:30
Country: Sweden	Job:
Thanks Mahmoud. The first commentor is repeating zionist trash. "Moderate arab", lol. This is what zionists call arabs who are willing to sell their own families, what arab would call himself/herself a moderate arab. Go get a clue "Chafeeka moderate arab", don't just repeat the zionist trash. It won't work. By the way, only zionist jews and christians use the word dhimmis. Pathetic, at least be a bit more discrete when pretending to be a "moderate" arab.

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