Man Killed, Six Injured in Gaza Tunnel, Child Died Due to the Siege

Child died in Gaza due to the siege, death toll reaches 360

Tuesday October 20, 2009 17:14 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

A Palestinian child was announced dead on Tuesday as he was prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip to get life saving medical care he needed.

Doctors reported that Tamer Al Sakanni, 13 years old, was suffering from cancer and needed urgent care outside Gaza but the Israeli military refused to grant the boy permission.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that with Tamer death the total number of patients who died because of the Israeli siege on Gaza since June of 2006 have reached 360.

One man killed six others injured while working in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip

Tuesday October 20, 2009 16:53 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

One Palestinian man was killed and six other injured on Tuesday midday while working at a tunnel near the southern Gaza Strip borders with Egypt.

Witnesses said that a manual lever used by the men to left supplies out of the tunnel collapsed dragging the seven men down with it.

Doctors at the nearby Rafah hospital said that one man arrived dead at the emergency room while the six other sustained moderate wounds.

Since Israeli besieged the Gaza strip in June 2006, the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt became the source of much needed medical and food supplies to the 1.5 million Palestinians living there.

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