Health care and the Palestinian bid for statehood.

摘要

Everything one can say about the health-care system in Palestine was summed up by the physician and political leader Haidar Abdel-Shafi in the wake of the Oslo Agreement in September, 1993. He said: "We cannot take care of health and education as long as we live under occupation".On Sept 13,1993,1 happened to be in Gaza city. A taxi driver told me: "My expectations from the Agreement are very few. I would like to have a better health care system, better education for my children and much better roads in the Gaza Strip". Maybe he didn't ask for too much, but these things were impossible to achieve because of the reallocation of responsibility between the State of Israel and the newborn Palestinian Authority, which took place without a parallel redistribution of power.