Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) on Monday decried the Israeli arrest campaigns targeting Gazan patients and their companions while they are travelling through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing for treatment in Israeli or Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The latest incident was arresting a patient’s companion named Mohammed Kotkot 44 on Thursday after he was summoned for a security interview with the Israeli intelligence at Beit Hanoun crossing.
The PCHR said that Kotkot was summoned for the interview after he had applied for a permit to cross Beit Hanoun crossing as a companion for his son who suffers from blood disorders and was referred for treatment at Augusta Victoria Hospital in Occupied Jerusalem.
The PCHR called on the international community particularly the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention as well as international organizations especially the World Health Organization and International Committee of the Red Cross to pressure the Israeli authorities to stop this inhuman and unjustifiable policy.
It also called for serious action to facilitate the movement and travel of patients from the Gaza Strip to hospitals in the 1948 occupied Palestine West Bank and Jerusalem.
