GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian health minister Jawad Awad cancelled a trip to Gaza City's Shifa hospital on Tuesday after being confronted by angry protesters as he arrived from Egypt, officials said.
Witnesses said protesters threw shoes and eggs at Awad's car as he entered Gaza through the Rafah border crossing.
Officials said he left the Palestinian territory shortly afterwards.
Protesters also gathered at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, carrying posters criticizing Awad and the recently formed government of technocrats to which he belongs.
The government was sworn in on June 2 following a unity deal between the Hamas movement and president Mahmoud Abbas which ended seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza.
"Gaza has been bombed, and Gaza has been destroyed, and now he comes to visit?" protester Ahmed Murtaja said incredulously.
"We don't want this visit and all the Palestinian people are opposed to it and reject it," he told AFP. more
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