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Mizra psychiatric hospital had 300 patients. When the conflict began some patients were
temporarily discharged. The hospital was hit twice, the second time a hospital building was
damaged, although there were no casualties. The hospital – some 220 patients and 130 staff –
were evacuated to two hospitals in central Israel. Within three days of the cessation of
hostilities, patients and staff returned to Mizra.
100
Many of these patients found this disruption extremely traumatic. All have now returned to
the north. However, some are now hospitalized because their health has deteriorated.
101
“Actions in Time of War”, The National Committee for the Arab Local Authorities in Israel,
Nazareth, 18 August 2006.
102
In relation to non-discriminatory access to health-related services, see CESCR general
comment No. 14 (2000), para. 12.
103
Jacob Blaustein Institute, op. cit.
104
Numerous concluding observations of United Nations treaty bodies , e.g. CESCR in 1998
and 2003, CERD in 1998 and CRC, refer to the policy and legislative steps necessary to
overcome the discrimination suffered by the Arab minority in Israel. The Israeli
Government-commissioned “Or Commission report” of 1993 also makes recommendations (see
http://elyon1.court.gov.il//heb/veadot/or/inside_index.htm., summary in English at:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=335594). Neither the treaty bodies
nor the Or Commission recommendations have been implemented by the State of Israel.
105
Arab Association for Human Rights, Weekly Review of Human Rights Violations of the
Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel No. 283, 14-21 July 2006.
106
http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/english/F/Main/index.asp. The definition of
“refugees” used on this site is not explained, but it appears to cover IDPs as well as those seeking
refuge outside Lebanon.
107
ICRC Study, see note 21 above, pp. 468-472 (Rule 132).
108
Guiding principle 28; ICCPR article 12 (right to choose one’s place of residence).
109
ICCPR article 12, paragraph 3.
110
See paragraph 60 and notes 52 and 68 above.
111
A report dated 18 September 2005 indicates that a “[t]otal of 500,000 cubic meters of rubble
has been removed and cleared from Beirut’s southern suburb, an estimated three quarters of the
rubble. The remaining amount of debris, believed to be around 700,000 cubic meters in total, is
expected to be cleared within two weeks time.” (Half a Million Cubic Meters of Rubble Removed
from Dahyeh, posted at
http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/english/F/eNews/NewsArticle.asp?CNewsID=337).
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