The Israeli occupation authority blocks treatment of Palestinian cancer patients

[Goku]

Gaza - The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has turned down requests of Palestinian cancer patients to receive treatment outside the Gaza Strip where no proper medical treatment for that fatal disease exists, a PA health ministry official charged.

Dr. Moawiya Hassanein, the director of ambulance and emergency department in the PA health ministry, said that the patients are well known to the IOA and had previously traveled for treatment.

The Israelis refuse to allow 80% of the blood cancer patients to leave the Strip for treatment and only allow the extremely urgent cases, he elaborated.

Hassanein said that the IOA denies passage for Gaza patients seeking better treatment in the 1948 occupied lands or the West Bank in view of the lack of advanced medical treatment in the Strip.

He said that IOF soldiers block ambulance cars and when they allow them access they wait for long hours for arbitrary search procedures.

http://www.jerusalemites.org/News In English/english/2006/November/292.htm

First the Israeli terrorists occupy Gaza, then they terrorise its civilians, then kill them, and now they wont even let their cancer sick patients out of the Gaza strip for life saving treatment. To be hooled up in your own land by foreign occupation, my heart bleeds for the Palestinian people.

 

[IzakHalevas]

Your source first if from a Hamas news source. There really fair and look at the whole situation, right?

Palestinian terrorists have tried to take advantage of Israel’s goodwill. In December 2004, for example, a Hamas agent with forged documents claiming that he was a cancer patient in need of medical treatment from an Israeli hospital was arrested by security forces. Hamed A-Karim Hamed Abu Lihiya was to meet up with another terrorist, obtain weapons from allies inside Israel, and carry out an attack. That same month, a man recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade to plant a bomb on the railway tracks near Netanya tried to use false papers indicating he needed hospital treatment to enter Israel. Another Hamas terrorist planning a suicide bombing was arrested in March 2005 after pretending to be a kidney donor.

On June 20, 2005, 21-year-old Wafa Samir Ibrahim Bas was arrested attempting to smuggle an explosives belt through the Erez crossing. Bas aroused the suspicion of soldiers at the checkpoint when a biometric scanner revealed she was hiding explosives. When she realized they had discovered the explosive belt, she attempted unsuccessfully to detonate it.

Bas had been admitted on humanitarian grounds to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva several months earlier for treatment of massive burns she received as a result of a cooking accident. After her arrest, she admitted that the Fatahal-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade had instructed her to use her personal medical authorization documents to enter into Israel to carry out a suicide attack. In an interview shown on Israeli television, Bas said her “dream was to be a martyr” and that her intent was to kill 40 or 50 people – as many young people as possible.

Nevertheless, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian obstetrician and gynecologist from the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, who has worked at the Soroka Hospital, wrote that he was “outraged at the cynical and potentially deadly suicide bombing attempt.” Dr. Abuelaish said he does research at the hospital's Genetic Institute and has warm relations with his colleagues. “I make a point, whenever I'm at the hospital, of visiting Palestinian patients,” he said. “I also schedule appointments for other Gaza residents, and even bring medication from Soroka to needy patients in the Strip....On the very day that she planned to detonate her bomb, two Palestinians in critical condition were waiting in Gaza to be taken for urgent treatment at Soroka ”

Dr. Abuelaish added, “Wafa was sent to kill the very people in Israel who are healing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. What if Israeli hospitals now decide to bar Palestinians seeking treatment? How would those who sent Bis feel if their own relatives, in need of medical care in Israel, are refused treatment?”

The Israeli checkpoint saved the lives not only of countless Israelis, but of the Palestinian would-be suicide bomber. By using this tactic, the Palestinians have reinforced the necessity of retaining the checkpoints and forced Israel to carry out more stringent inspections, yet another example of how terrorists are making life unnecessarily difficult for innocent Palestinians.

“Israeli hospitals extend humanitarian treatment to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. These efforts continued when all other cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis came to a halt during the most recent intifada.”

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— Palestinian obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish​

 

[Goku]

I do agree that it was wrong to try and kill Israelis who were helping people.

But, Israel has done more harm than good, it has thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians in its jails, it occupies Palestinian land bulldozes homes of innocent Palestinian families, even mothers with young children, in their own land to make room for Jewish "settlers" from around the globe. Recently in the Gaza seige it has killed over 400 Palestinians, mostly innocent civilians, not to mention it bombed civilian power plants and other infastructure. Israel has killed over 1,200 people in the recent Lebanon war and displaced over 1 million people, it did over £13billion of damage to Lebanon civilian property and infastructre, and other such crimes.

There is a reson why the Palestinian people try to do such acts, I think most Palestinians and Israelis want peace, but for that, their leaders need to engage in talks.

I think the viable way for permanant peace is for Israel to withdraw from all land they captured in the 1967 war and allow the displaced Palestinians who were forced out of their homes, back into their homes in modern day Israel. In return, the Palestinian Authority should recognise Israel with the 1948 borders. The zionists got far more land than they bought in 1948. Its a loss to the Palestinians but if theres better suggestions, let me know.