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Grants for medical treatments abroad a "lifeline" for Gaza children


GAZA, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Mona Abu Aasi, a 14-year-old Palestinian girl from Shatti (Beach) Refugee Camp in western Gaza City, left Gaza few days ago to the Italian city of Florence after she had finally received a grant abroad to treat her brain cancer.

Abu Aasi had been suffering from cancer for several years due to lack of medical services in Gaza and ongoing Israeli siege until Relief Palestine, a non-profit American Charity Organization that has been operating for 20 years, offered her the medical grant.

Receiving the grant from the charity organization, which has been helping Palestinian and Arab children suffering from serious diseases, ended the torture and pain of the girl's family helpless to treat her disease.

Farah Abu Halima, a 5-year-old girl who had suffered a lot from a second degree burns after being badly injured in Israeli shelling in eastern Gaza city, has travelled to the United States and Dubai for treatment.

Steve Susbi, an American activist and director of Relief Palestine, told Xinhua in an interview that those children have been either injured in war or infected with chronic and serious diseases, but they can't find a proper medical treatment in Gaza due to lack of medical services.

"The organization was founded in 1992 and it focuses on providing proper and free medical treatment to children who can't be cured in their countries," said Susbi.

Relief Palestine has branches and volunteers in the United States, mainly in San Francisco, Boston, New Jersey and San Diego, as well as the United Arab Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Ailing children usually stay with local Arab and Palestinian families. more
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