People who smoke a few cigarettes a day underestimate the danger to their health.

Cutting back on nurses in European hospitals increases the death rate after surgery.

US hospitals cut back on nurses 20 years ago. A friend who was a nurse quit the profession rather than take legal responsibility for supervising lots of untrained personnel, more than she could effectively supervise, and be at risk of a lawsuit if any of them screwed up.

For a Palestinian, getting a permit to bring a 7-year-old child to Gaza after surgery is not easy.

Israel arrested a Palestinian journalist for calling an Israeli official "the mayor of occupied Jerusalem".

Does that look like a crime to you? I don't know whether I agree with the statement or not, simply because I don't know the pertinent facts about that man's office; but even if the statement is a stretch, it must not be a crime.

A few Palestinian children threw stones at some Israeli occupation soldiers, so the soldiers fired tear gas at a crowd of fleeing children.