© Anshel PfefferMembers of the Falashmura community in Ethiopia, waiting to immigrate to Israel.
A government official has for the first time acknowledged the practice of injecting women of Ethiopian origin with the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera.
Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu has instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop the practice as a matter of course.
The ministry and other state agencies had previously denied knowledge or responsibility for the practice, which was first reported five years ago.
Gamzu's letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment."
He also instructed physicians to avail themselves of translators if need be.
Gamzu's letter came in response to a letter from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, representing several women's rights and Ethiopian immigrants' groups. The letter demanded the injections cease immediately and that an investigation be launched into the practice.
About six weeks ago, on an Educational Television program journalist Gal Gabbay revealed the results of interviews with 35 Ethiopian immigrants. The women's testimony could help explain the almost 50-percent decline over the past 10 years in the birth rate of Israel's Ethiopian community. According to the program, while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection. "They told us they are inoculations," said one of the women interviewed. "They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn't want to."
The realization of the people from Ethiopia that the people who call themselves the Israelis are not the righteous people that the Ethiopians think they are is finally starting to sink in deeper into the recesses of the mind.The Falashas are a proud and humble people who along with the rest of the world have been taken in by the smile on the face,while they are passing poison to the next generation.The Israeli faction of the Consortium have their marching orders just as the Nazi faction had their marching orders.in each cae it was the fear of the birth of the " Messiah", or the potential DNA profile that has long given nightmares to the 4D overlords.