Friday 25 July 2014
Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians, and medical workers are also coming under fire, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.
On Wed Jul 23, 2014 Israel issued an evacuation warning to Shifa hospital.
And it is not just now, not suddenly. The Israeli military-industrial-complex seems to have a habit of using occupied territories as lab: As the pharmaceutical industry is a highly globalized arena, the "CAPTIVE ECONOMY - THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTY AND THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION" report from 2012 reveals some of the ways in which Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands offers opportunities to exploit the captive Palestinian market.
The "PROVEN EFFECTIVE: CROWD CONTROL WEAPONS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES" report from May this year highlights the harmful consequences of three types of non-lethal crowd control weapons and addresses how the occupied Palestinian territories are being used as a lab for testing new weapons for civil oppression on humans in order to label them as proven effective for marketing abroad.
The Israel Apartheid State gives impunity for IDF soldiers trains together with other police forces. US police officers coming back from a few weeks of training in Israel saying, "You guys are bad asses." Police brutality will reach everywhere.