As the New Year approaches and many of us head out to celebrate, it won’t hurt to take a moment and reflect on how our actions our inactions are increasing human suffering. Let’s all hope next year brings more peace, health and prosperity to the world:
“The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics published in September 2002 a survey according to which 84% of West Bank Palestinians report that they are harmed by the restrictions on movement imposed by Israel. 64.9% of them define the harm as ’substantial’. According to the survey 72.3% of the residents of the West Bank reported difficulties in reaching medical care. Of these, 51.4% rated the difficulty as ‘difficult to impossible’”.
“The Red Crescent ambulance service said that in 70% of calls to the Palestinian service, the ambulance is unable to reach the patient’s house, and the individual has to make his or her way to a checkpoint to meet the ambulance.”
