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Gazan patient dies after denied travel for medical treatment

Saturday 5-May-2018

A Palestinian citizen who suffered from a health problem was proclaimed dead on Saturday morning in the besieged Gaza Strip after he was prevented by Israel from receiving medical treatment in hospitals in the occupied territories.

According to the National Anti-Siege and Reconstruction Commission the Israeli authorities had rejected several requests submitted by 41-year-old Mohamed Dababesh asking for allowing him to enter the 1948 occupied lands for treatment.

More than two million Palestinians in Gaza have been under inhumane blockade for about 12 years. The siege claimed the lives of dozens of patients who failed to receive medical treatment outside Gaza.

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