"The Military has repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive"

[ProgressiveMuslim]

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel in a Report on Medical Ethics during the War on Gaza:"The Military has repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive"

23 Mar 2009

Prevention of medical assistance from the trapped and the wounded, severe difficulties to emergency medical evacuation, attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities, and de facto prevention from the chronically ill and gravely wounded referral to medical care outside Gaza. "We call for an outside independent body to investigate the events" say representatives of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.


The new report, published today by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, gives room for concern that during the operation in Gaza, Israeli soldiers repeatedly acted in violation of the army's code of ethics, the medical code of ethics, and basic human values. These actions suggest repeated violations of the International Law regarding the treatment of the ill and the wounded and the protection of medical personnel.

The report examines six topics: the situation of the Gaza health system on the eve of the military operation, the difficulties in evacuating the wounded to medical centers outside Gaza, attacks on medical personnel, difficulties in internal evacuation of the wounded, attacks on medical facilities and injury to chronic and acute patients.

Based on numerous first hand testimonies that were brought to the attention of PHR-Israel during the attack, the report depicts a grave picture of the realities in Gaza during those 22 days. In some of the cases revealed to PHR-Israel, the army did not allow for the evacuation of wounded and trapped civilians for days on, leaving them in isolated pockets with no access to food, water and medical treatment. The army did not assist these civilians but even more, it prevented the Palestinian emergency vehicles and staff from reaching these civilians. In other cases, the soldiers did not give medical assistance to wounded human beings that were within several feet from the soldiers. This, in serious violation of the army's Ethical Code for the War on Terror of 2004 that states that "soldiers are obliged to provide adequate health services, as conditions allow, equally to themselves and to the enemy."

PHR-Israel received reports of 16 medical personnel that were killed and 25 that were wounded from the Israeli army's fire, all of them while performing their medical duties. Furthermore, 34 medical facilities were hit by the army, eight hospitals and 26 primary care clinics; this in severe violation of directives of international law that forbid attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities in times of fighting

http://www.phr.org.il/phr/article.asp?articleid=702&catid=55&pcat=-1&lang=ENG

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3. ProgressiveMuslim, this is off topic, but I hoped you wouldn't mind.

I have been Googling Norman Finkelstein's website for ages, and I noticed the last couple of days that his website does not make the list. Then today on another search, I found this:

April 09, 2009
Why can't you find normanfinkelstein.com on google?

Donald Johnson sent me this note:
I visit Norman Finkelstein's site about once a week. I usually get there by googling his name and then clicking. That didn't work yesterday, because apparently Google no longer provides links to Norman's site. I don't know what the explanation is, but it is kind of interesting.

Agreed; I wonder. (Finkelstein's out of town.)

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I checked this as well and got the same result. This is very curious.

I have never known google to suddenly "lose" all references to a specific website before.

Posted by: David F. | April 09, 2009 at 10:20 PM

I used to see his site on google. i just tried it. it should come us as the first listing when you post a search like 'normanfinkelstein.com' but it did not. i think this is being done by the same group of people that are pressuring youTube to remove videos that are critical to Israel.

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/04/why-cant-you-find-normanfinkelsteincom-on-google.html

**When you Google normanfinkelstein.com, this is what comes up on the first page:

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Results 1 - 10 of about 428,000 for normanfinkelstein.com. (0.06 seconds)
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Norman Finkelstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mondoweiss: Why can't you find normanfinkelstein.com on google?
Donald Johnson sent me this note: I visit Norman Finkelstein's site about once a week. I usually get there by googling his name and then clicking.
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Finkelstein full interview undoctored by MEMRI - normanfinkelstein.com ... Finkelstein on Lebanon's NEW TV 06.21.2006 - normanfinkelstein.com ...
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This site reaches approximately 15166 US monthly people. The site appeals to a mostly male, more educated, middle aged audience.
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Those at the bottom do not bring you to his website, just thought it was odd and wondered if a website has tech issues, does that have a direct change for the Google search, not that his website is reporting any problems that I'm aware of.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Bfe&q=normanfinkelstein.com&btnG=Search