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Thread #149360   Message #3494611
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-Mar-13 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel condemned by UN
Subject: RE: BS: Israel condemned by UN
Whoops - two signatures
Won't bother signing this to make up for that

HEALTH
• Arab citizens of Israel can expect to live shorter lives than Jewish citizens (about four years less) and face significantly higher mortality rates, particularly after the age of 60. The rate of infant mortality among
Palestinian citizens is approximately double that among Jewish citizens, and higher still among the Arab Bedouin population in the Naqab (Negev), where it reaches more than 15 per 1,000 live births.
• While Israeli law provides that equitable, high-quality health services should be provided to all residents of Israel, various barriers —including the lack of clinics and hospitals in Arab towns and villages and limitations
on mobility —mean that Palestinian citizens are frequently unable to exercise their right to the highest sustainable standard of health.
• The health situation is most critical in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab, where health services are either limited or non-existent. The inadequate provision of health services in the unrecognized villages is a deliberate policy of neglect on the part of the state, which is seeking to evacuate them and relocate their residents, in part by creating intolerable conditions.