After the evacuation of Gush Katif settlement and intensifying with 2008–2009 Israeli War on Gaza, border town Sderot its surrounding landscape became, for American Christian Zionists, a pilgrimage therefore sacred space as it was performed an event site portending apocalypse. Zionists interpreted war took place mise-en-scène hope: hollowing out Gaza in anticipation Christ’s return. read future...

The prevalence of resilience in the presence of military violence and the role of child and family characteristics fostering that resilience were analyzed in a Palestinian community sample using a person-based approach. The participants consisted of a random sample of 640 Palestinian children and adolescents, their parents, and their teachers, all living on the Gaza Strip. A medical examination...

It is obvious that translation plays an important role in the human communications. From ancient time up to now there has been debates about methods of translation. Some scholars preferred word for word and some others preferred sense for sense. Translators have a very important task to bring the sense of the text from one language to another language and alike. This study discusses the learnin...

The global eradication of poliomyelitis, believed to be achievable around the year 2000, relies on strategies which include high routine immunization coverage and mass vaccination campaigns, along with continuous monitoring of wild-type virus circulation by using the laboratory-based acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. Israel and the Palestinian Authority are located in a geographical r...

• Vol 9 • September 2007 688 A 17 year old girl was referred to the trauma unit after being involved in a bomb explosion in Gaza. She sustained multiple injuries in her chest, abdomen and pelvis. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed an incidental finding of multiple curvilinear tubular and cylindrical filling defects in the intestinal lumen. Some of these structu...

OBJECTIVE To utilize complementary biochemical and dietary data collected before the initiation of national flour fortification to (i) identify micronutrient insufficiencies or deficiencies and dietary inadequacies in Palestinian women and children in vulnerable communities and (ii) assess the suitability of the current wheat flour fortification formula. DESIGN Quantitative dietary intake que...

In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to identify and understand obstacles barriers in applying electronic exams successfully process distance education. We followed an exploratory descriptive approach through a questionnaire (one general, open question) with sample university teachers students four largest universities Palestinian Gaza. A total 152 were returned from 300 distributed ques...

The epidemiological pattern and risk factors of burns and burn infections varies widely in different parts of the world. This study aims to determine the epidemiologic pattern of burn injuries and possible risk factors associated with burn infections in burn units of Gaza strip hospitals. A total of 118 patients were included in the study. The data collected included: patient age and gender, th...