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Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories has damaged health, charity report says

BMJ 2003; 327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1303-a (Published 04 December 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:1303
  1. Dyer Owen
  1. London

    Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has damaged the health of the civilian population, a report from the charity Médecins du Monde has said. Since the beginning of the second Intifada in September 2000, the charity has noted a “general deterioration in the state of health of patients [seen] in medical centres, related to the limit of access to health care.”


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    A clinic in Nablus after a search by Israeli

    Credit: MÉDECINS DU MONDE

    The report places the …

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