GAZA (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has refused to allow entry of Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip into the green line (Palestinian lands occupied in 1948) for medical treatment.
Mouawiya Hassanein the director of PA health ministry’s emergency department said that IOA blocked the travel of Palestinian ambulance cars carrying patients for treatment in hospitals in the green line despite prior coordination on the matter.
He said in a press release that the patients were forced to wait for three hours at the Erez crossing before refusing to allow them proceed into the green line.
Hassanein pointed out that among the patients was the child Ihsan Abu Muamer 15 who is suffering from numbness in the brain and acute shortage of oxygen intake. The boy’s family had secured an IOA security approval and an Israeli ambulance car was waiting to carry him.
The PA health official noted that among the patients was the 6-month-old toddler Dua’a Al-Zibda who was in ICU and had to wait for three hours at the crossing before telling her parents she was denied entry.
He expressed utter dismay at the IOA obstinacy and maltreatment of Palestinian patients urging human rights organizations and concerned international parties to step in and check Israeli violations against sick civilians.
In another development Dr. Talal Abu Muwais the father of the prisoner Wasim 20 asked human rights and legal organizations to intervene and seek treatment for his son who is held in the Israeli Negev prison.
He said that Wasim’s foot was broken while exercising in prison and needed proper treatment. Dr. Talal charged the prison authority with confiscating his son’s crutches which helped him move around.
Wasim who has been held in the Negev jail since 2004 was serving a six and a half years imprisonment term.
