BRUSSELS (PIC)– The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza has expressed surprise at the news report that the PA in Ramallah was blocking travel of Gaza patients abroad for life-saving medical treatment.
Mohammed Hanun the representative of the campaign in Italy said in a press statement on Saturday that the World Health Organization had confirmed that the travel of those patients was hinged on Ramallah’s approval as both Egypt and Israel refuses to allow those patients access without prior approval of Ramallah.
He said that his campaign views with utmost concern such a report adding that refusal of Ramallah authority to approve travel of those patients or to shoulder their expenses would mean the death of more patients with 315 of them already dead because of that siege and inability to travel outside Gaza.
Hanun asked Ramallah to spare the seriously ill citizens in Gaza the inter-Palestinian political wrangling adding that those patients had enough troubles whether the oppressive siege or the cruel war.
Depriving the Gaza patients of the necessary financing also means deepening the rift between the Gaza strip and the West Bank he elaborated.
