Arab Organization for Human Rights in UK on Wednesday held Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas responsible for the death of the 6-day-old Gazan infant Donia Dughmush on Tuesday.
The Organization said in a report that Dughmush is the 24th victim since the beginning of 2017 after the PA had decided to halt medical referrals for patients who need to travel abroad for treatment that is not available in the Gaza Strip.
The Organization stressed that the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 11 years and the latest punitive measures waged by Abbas against the Gazan people are described in Rome Convention as “crimes against humanity”.
It affirmed that the PA is holding the Gazan people hostages to achieve political agendas calling on the international community to act urgently to save the lives of more than 2500 patients who are waiting to be allowed to travel outside the Gaza Strip for immediate treatment.
The Gaza Strip has been under a suffocating siege since the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas won the 2006 legislative elections. The siege was tightened after Hamas took control of the coastal enclave in June 2007.
The siege includes imposing restrictions on the entry of fuel and many basic goods closing the crossings connecting Gaza with the outside world and reducing the allowed fishing area in Gaza sea.
