3 Palestinian Patients Killed by Israeli Occupation Government Refusal to Allow them to Be Treated Abroad, 124 Killed in March 2008

IOA bars 67 Palestinian patients from receiving treatment abroad in March

[ 05/04/2008 - 08:05 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The PA health ministry in Gaza stated that the Israeli occupation government (IOG) barred 67 Palestinian patients in Gaza from traveling abroad to receive medical treatment and did not respond to travel requests submitted by 411 others during the past month of March.

In this regard, two Palestinian patients were proclaimed dead on Thursday and Friday after they tried more than once to travel abroad for treatment but to no avail. The patients' families added that the lack of medicines in Gaza also contributed to their death.

For its part, the popular committee against the siege said that the death of the two patients raised the number of the siege victims to 123 Palestinians including 24 children, 43 women in addition to 32 patients who died at the crossings.

The Israeli siege also killed a Palestinian infant called Mohamed Haniya on Friday evening after the IOA refused his travel request submitted by his family four consecutive times.

Number of Palestinian civilians died from Israeli closure jumped to 124

Saturday April 05, 2008 12:49 by IMEMC Staff - IMEMC News

Friday night Palestinian medical sources in Gaza announced that an ill Palestinian woman and her infant died after being denied permission by Israeli Authorities to leave Gaza for essential treatment.

Etaf Zaqout, 52, and her infant of 14 months died while waiting for Israeli permission to leave Gaza for medical treatment. Sources added that the number of dead Palestinian civilians reached 124, after these two deaths, due to lack of adequate medical care and Israeli denial leave Gaza for medical care. Translated by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News.

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