GAZA (PIC)– The victims of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip rose to 311 Palestinians after three patients died in Gaza on Sunday due to inability to travel abroad for treatment of chronic diseases.
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said in a statement that two of the deceased suffered heart ailments and could not receive proper treatment in the Strip in view of the poor health facilities which were doubled by the oppressive siege that prevented entry of appropriate medication medical equipment and even medical cadres.
It also castigated the Egyptian authority for insisting on closure of the Rafah border terminal before patients and for humiliating those patients who are left to wait for hours under the sun during the rare occasions when that crossing is opened.
The ministry held the Egyptian authority responsible for the big increase in the number of siege victims as a result of the ban on travel of those patients and for barring the entry of medicine medical equipment and medical delegations.
It asked the Egyptians to rectify those practices which only harm the reputation of Egypt and appealed to all honorable people of the world to immediate and urgently intervene to save the lives of the Gaza sick people who are threatened with death unless the Rafah terminal is opened the soonest.
