{"id":1953,"date":"2019-08-16T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vivasalud.be\/over-viva-salud\/landen\/palestina\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:55:32","slug":"palestine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vivasalud.be\/en\/pays-partenaires\/palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over 75 years of occupation<\/span><\/p><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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For more than 75 years now, Palestinians have been subjected to occupation, violence and systematic oppression by Israel.<\/b> This brutal occupation takes all types of forms: illegal settlements that mercilessly spread across Palestinian territory, a murderous blockade of Gaza, repeated military attacks, massive and arbitrary arrests, organised theft of land and the building of an apartheid wall that divides and humiliates. This machine of oppression is turning the daily lives of millions of Palestinians into a permanent nightmare and depriving them of their most basic human rights: healthcare, education, work and decent housing.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Gaza, this tortured territory, has become \u00abthe largest open-air prison in the world\u00bb.<\/b> More than two million people are surviving under a criminal blockade that deliberately starves them, depriving them of drinking water, food, fuel and vital medical care. Since October 2023, this population has endured an unprecedented massacre: indiscriminate bombings, devastating military operations that have killed tens of thousands of innocent lives and destroyed hospitals, schools and homes. <\/span>A true genocide is unfolding before our very eyes.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the West Bank, oppression has been increasing daily since October 2023.<\/b> Palestinian communities face ethnic cleansing: forced evictions, house demolitions, murderous raids by settlers protected by a complicit army, a suffocating military grid. Every checkpoint, every roadblock is a new humiliation, isolating families, preventing children from going to school and the sick from seeking treatment.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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our commitment to our partners<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We must say it loud and clear: what is happening in Palestine is not a \u00abhumanitarian crisis\u00bb that has come out of the blue, but the logical outcome of a racist colonial project.<\/b> A system of apartheid methodically organised to erase a people from its own land. As long as this machine for crushing human rights is not dismantled, as long as the international community turns a blind eye to this blatant injustice, the Palestinians will continue to be deprived of freedom, dignity and the fundamental right to self-determination on their own land.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Faced with this dramatic reality, our three partner organisations on the ground - two in the West Bank and one in Gaza - are courageously continuing their daily fight for access to healthcare and the defence of Palestinian rights.<\/b> Despite facing impossible obstacles, they are organising and resisting. It is vital to support them so that the Palestinians can continue their legitimate fight for freedom. Their exceptional work in these extreme conditions deserves to be known and supported.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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our Palestinian partners<\/span><\/p><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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