Al-Mizan Center for Human Rights has affirmed that the travel restrictions imposed by Israel on the movement of Palestinian patients from and to the Gaza Strip caused the death of eight of them.
According to report released by al-Mizan Center three of those patients died as a result of Israeli restrictions during the current year.
The Israeli occupation forces also arrested during the current year one patients and four companions after they were granted travel permits.
The Center strongly denounced Israel’s persistence in imposing travel and movement restrictions on Palestinian patients in the occupied territories and Gaza and carrying out arbitrary arrests against them after giving them permits.
The Center stressed that denying patients access to hospitals violates the international humanitarian law and called on the international community to intervene to end Israel’s violations against the rights of Palestinian patients and work on enabling them to have access to hospital and medical treatment.
