Palestinian patient number 70 dies due to the brutal Israeli siege imposed on Gaza Strip

Patient number 70 dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza

Saturday January 12, 2008 13:48 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News ghassanb at imemc dot org

Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian patient died on Saturday after the Israeli occupation army refused to allow him to leave the coastal region for medical care.

The sources said that Yahya Al-Jamal, 53, had cancer and had applied three times to leave Gaza but the Israeli army refused. Doctors said that Al-Jamal was diagnosed with cancer 9 months ago.

The Israeli occupation army has imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip since June 2007, leaving the 1.5 million Palestinians living under severe conditions.

Al-Jamal is the 70th person who has died of a chronic illness since the Israeli occupation government placed the Gaza Strip under total siege. Those 69 included children, the youngest being Dou'a Habib, who was five months old.

Two more Palestinian patients die of IOA siege

[ 12/01/2008 - 10:37 AM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)--

A Palestinian cancer patient died Saturday morning in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, after the Israeli occupation government (IOG) refused to allow him to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, medical sources announced.

The sources identified the man as Yahya Al-Jamal, 53, who was denied permission to travel abroad by the IOG and could not find proper treatment in the besieged Strip.

At dawn Friday, another Palestinian patient died in Gaza city due to the IOA tight siege imposed for seven months and the closure of all crossings.

Medical sources said that Hassan Salmi, 60, suffered from kidney failure and could not receive proper treatment in the Strip due to the lack of medicines, which are barely allowed into the Strip.

One of the victim's brothers underlined that he obtained a permit from the PA health ministry for treatment outside the Strip but the IOG repeatedly refused to allow him to travel.

The two deaths bring to 67 the number of Palestinian patients dying in the Strip over the past seven months due to the IOG-imposed siege. Hundreds others are waiting for permission to receive treatment outside the Strip and are threatened with the same fate.

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.