Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)- Palestinian medical sources announced that Israeli authorities banned an infant in Gaza Strip from transfer to a hospital inside Israel for medical treatment. The suffocating siege imposed by Israel for more than five years continues to affect the lives of hundreds of patients in the coastal region.[Edited for English grammar and spelling - iGaza]
The 10-month-old infant, named Ismail Salam, suffers from a life threatening disease, and is in desperate need of immediate surgery outside Gaza Strip to save his life. more
Until now, the besieged Gaza Strip has stayed free of the novel coronavirus spreading across the world. As the Gaza Strip has been under a stringent Israeli-led blockade for nearly 13 years, the spread of the coronavirus - officially known as COVID-19 - has become the topic of discussion for many Palestinians, with some joking that the blockade was preventing them from being exposed.But as authorities in the coastal Palestinian enclave gear up to contain any potential outbreak, serious questions have arisen about the risks and implications of such a scenario. But given its already difficult humanitarian situation and high population density, an outbreak in the Gaza Strip could prove to be catastrophic, health officials have warned. "If the virus enters Gaza and spreads, it will get out of hand," Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Majdi Thuhair told Middle East Eye, as he explained that a severe shortage of resources and personnel would make it near impossible
To withhold life-saving surgery to an infant is clearly wrong in every sense of the word. Would you want the same fate for your child? I suggest you follow the admonition "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," while you still have the chance, otherwise if he dies it will be on your (collective) heads.
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