30 june 2017
Dozens of Palestinian institutions in Europe have strongly condemned depriving the sick children in Gaza of their right to medical treatment. The institutions lashed out at the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) for such a step and called it a crime against humanity. They also demanded the Palestinian Authority (PA) to work on lifting the siege on Gaza.
In a petition on Friday, the institutions held the IOA responsible for the safety and lives of the sick people in Gaza. They charged that Israel is accustomed to breaching international laws and charters as well as violating basic human rights guaranteed in international laws and regulations.
The institutions in Europe called on the international community and human rights organizations in addition to medical and relief societies to exert efforts for lifting the Gaza siege. They also asked the PA to cancel its resolutions regarding cutting-off the salaries of its employees in Gaza and hindering the operation of Gaza’s sole power plant.
In a petition on Friday, the institutions held the IOA responsible for the safety and lives of the sick people in Gaza. They charged that Israel is accustomed to breaching international laws and charters as well as violating basic human rights guaranteed in international laws and regulations.
The institutions in Europe called on the international community and human rights organizations in addition to medical and relief societies to exert efforts for lifting the Gaza siege. They also asked the PA to cancel its resolutions regarding cutting-off the salaries of its employees in Gaza and hindering the operation of Gaza’s sole power plant.
A Gazan patient was pronounced day at noontime Friday at al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza after he had been denied treatment abroad for over 50 days.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry said 20-year-old Bassam al-Attar died of a cancer affecting his lymph nodes.
Medics’ appeals to transfer the casualty to equipped hospitals outside of Gaza had gone unheeded for 50 days, until the patient ultimately breathed his last.
The health of dozens of sick patients, preterm children, and cancer-stricken civilians in Gaza is in danger after the Palestinian Authority (PA), chaired by Mahmoud Abbas, denied them treatment abroad.
The Health Ministry said it is deeply concerned over the health of dozens of cancer-stricken patients who have been prevented from receiving life-saving therapy outside Gaza.
The ministry called on all concerned parties to pressure the PA to supply the besieged enclave with much-needed medicines, most notably chemical doses and immunity-boosting drugs, and to immediately transfer emergency cases to hospitals outside Gaza before it is too late.
The ministry further urged Egypt to unblock the Rafah border crossing with Gaza so as to allow hundreds of stranded humanitarian cases to undergo therapy abroad.
It further appealed to the international humanitarian institutions to step up pressure on the Israeli occupation so as to force it to cease its racist and immoral practices against sick Palestinians and to observe international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which grant sick patients the right to free and safe transfers.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry said 20-year-old Bassam al-Attar died of a cancer affecting his lymph nodes.
Medics’ appeals to transfer the casualty to equipped hospitals outside of Gaza had gone unheeded for 50 days, until the patient ultimately breathed his last.
The health of dozens of sick patients, preterm children, and cancer-stricken civilians in Gaza is in danger after the Palestinian Authority (PA), chaired by Mahmoud Abbas, denied them treatment abroad.
The Health Ministry said it is deeply concerned over the health of dozens of cancer-stricken patients who have been prevented from receiving life-saving therapy outside Gaza.
The ministry called on all concerned parties to pressure the PA to supply the besieged enclave with much-needed medicines, most notably chemical doses and immunity-boosting drugs, and to immediately transfer emergency cases to hospitals outside Gaza before it is too late.
The ministry further urged Egypt to unblock the Rafah border crossing with Gaza so as to allow hundreds of stranded humanitarian cases to undergo therapy abroad.
It further appealed to the international humanitarian institutions to step up pressure on the Israeli occupation so as to force it to cease its racist and immoral practices against sick Palestinians and to observe international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which grant sick patients the right to free and safe transfers.
28 june 2017
The child Yousuf al-Agha died of kidney failure on Wednesday evening after the Palestinian Authority (PA) refused to transfer him abroad for treatment.
Spokesman of the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qedra, said that Rantisi Hospital for Children, where Agha stays, had applied for a very urgent medical referral for Agha 17 days ago.
Thousands of medical cases in Gaza including children, premature babies and people with serious diseases are at the risk of death because the PA had decided to reduce the number of cases allowed to be transferred abroad for treatment.
The Ministry of Health as well as the national movement warned on Tuesday that new patients will die every 8 hours in light of the shortage of drugs and medical supplies and the PA's refusal to issue medical referrals for patients.
Undersecretary of the Gaza Ministry of Health said that 11 patients have died since the beginning of 2017 and that more than 1,600 others were prevented from travelling abroad for treatment.
Spokesman of the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qedra, said that Rantisi Hospital for Children, where Agha stays, had applied for a very urgent medical referral for Agha 17 days ago.
Thousands of medical cases in Gaza including children, premature babies and people with serious diseases are at the risk of death because the PA had decided to reduce the number of cases allowed to be transferred abroad for treatment.
The Ministry of Health as well as the national movement warned on Tuesday that new patients will die every 8 hours in light of the shortage of drugs and medical supplies and the PA's refusal to issue medical referrals for patients.
Undersecretary of the Gaza Ministry of Health said that 11 patients have died since the beginning of 2017 and that more than 1,600 others were prevented from travelling abroad for treatment.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned, in a memorandum on Tuesday, of an unprecedented deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza due to the suffocating impact of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, in place for more than 11 years.
The blockade has deprived more than 2 million residents of Gaza of basic needs, bringing them to the very brink of survival, with about 80 percent of the population depending on international aid, the Euro-Med Monitor highlighted.
Israeli authorities have intensified their blockade on Gaza in recent weeks, severely limiting traffic through both commercial and non-commercial crossings, depriving residents of electricity and fuel, and preventing fishermen from earning a living, it stated.
The health sector in Gaza witnessed a clear decline in the first half of 2017. Hospitals have been complaining of sharp shortage of medications and medical equipment because of the closure of the main crossings in Gaza, in addition to the significant shortage of specialized staff.
According to Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been refusing most cases of treatment outside the besieged Gaza Strip resulting in the aggravation of health conditions of thousands of patients who need to be treated in hospitals outside Gaza. Five persons including three children have died over the past two days as a result of not being allowed to travel abroad for treatment.
The unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has reached 43.2% in the first few months of 2017 compared to 18.7% in the West Bank. The rate of the people who live below poverty line in Gaza has jumped to 38.7% which is two and a half times higher than the rate in the West Bank.
The Euro-Med's memo also pointed to the power crisis in light of the shutdown of the sole power plant in Gaza mid of last April after halting the entry of artificial fuel required in order to run the power plant. This followed the imposition of certain conditions by the PA including the increase of taxes on electricity distribution company.
The blockade has deprived more than 2 million residents of Gaza of basic needs, bringing them to the very brink of survival, with about 80 percent of the population depending on international aid, the Euro-Med Monitor highlighted.
Israeli authorities have intensified their blockade on Gaza in recent weeks, severely limiting traffic through both commercial and non-commercial crossings, depriving residents of electricity and fuel, and preventing fishermen from earning a living, it stated.
The health sector in Gaza witnessed a clear decline in the first half of 2017. Hospitals have been complaining of sharp shortage of medications and medical equipment because of the closure of the main crossings in Gaza, in addition to the significant shortage of specialized staff.
According to Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been refusing most cases of treatment outside the besieged Gaza Strip resulting in the aggravation of health conditions of thousands of patients who need to be treated in hospitals outside Gaza. Five persons including three children have died over the past two days as a result of not being allowed to travel abroad for treatment.
The unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has reached 43.2% in the first few months of 2017 compared to 18.7% in the West Bank. The rate of the people who live below poverty line in Gaza has jumped to 38.7% which is two and a half times higher than the rate in the West Bank.
The Euro-Med's memo also pointed to the power crisis in light of the shutdown of the sole power plant in Gaza mid of last April after halting the entry of artificial fuel required in order to run the power plant. This followed the imposition of certain conditions by the PA including the increase of taxes on electricity distribution company.
27 june 2017
Three Palestinian toddlers were pronounced dead in Gaza in no more than 24 hours, after the Palestinian Authority (PA), chaired by Mahmoud Abbas, denied them urgent treatment.
The Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, said nine-month-old Ibrahim Samir Tbeil breathed his last at the intensive care unit in al-Rentisi Hospital.
Al-Qudra warned that 3,000 to 4,000 babies in Gaza are in need of urgent treatment outside the besieged coastal enclave.
A few hours earlier, a toddler with cardiovascular disorders was pronounced dead at al-Shifa Medical Center in Gaza after he was prevented by the PA from receiving treatment outside Gaza. The baby was identified as Baraa Ghaban.
Sometime earlier, al-Qudra warned that the toddler was on the verge of death due to a severe heart disease. He was pronounced dead three hours later.
On Monday afternoon, a third baby—Mus’ab Bilal al-Areir— died in the coastal enclave.
Al-Qudra and human rights activists held the PA and the Israeli occupation accountable for the death of the three Gazan toddlers, warning that more deaths might be recorded in the next few hours if urgent steps are not taken.
Head of the nursery department at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, Abu Hamda, appealed to all human rights organizations and medical institutions to take urgent action and work on saving Gaza’s newborns before it is too late.
Abu Hamda said other babies have been diagnosed with deadly symptoms and risk to die at any possible moment if they do not receive urgent treatment somewhere outside of Gaza’s underequipped hospitals.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the reluctance maintained by the PA claimed the lives of nine patients, among whom three babies, since the start of 2017.
The Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, said nine-month-old Ibrahim Samir Tbeil breathed his last at the intensive care unit in al-Rentisi Hospital.
Al-Qudra warned that 3,000 to 4,000 babies in Gaza are in need of urgent treatment outside the besieged coastal enclave.
A few hours earlier, a toddler with cardiovascular disorders was pronounced dead at al-Shifa Medical Center in Gaza after he was prevented by the PA from receiving treatment outside Gaza. The baby was identified as Baraa Ghaban.
Sometime earlier, al-Qudra warned that the toddler was on the verge of death due to a severe heart disease. He was pronounced dead three hours later.
On Monday afternoon, a third baby—Mus’ab Bilal al-Areir— died in the coastal enclave.
Al-Qudra and human rights activists held the PA and the Israeli occupation accountable for the death of the three Gazan toddlers, warning that more deaths might be recorded in the next few hours if urgent steps are not taken.
Head of the nursery department at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, Abu Hamda, appealed to all human rights organizations and medical institutions to take urgent action and work on saving Gaza’s newborns before it is too late.
Abu Hamda said other babies have been diagnosed with deadly symptoms and risk to die at any possible moment if they do not receive urgent treatment somewhere outside of Gaza’s underequipped hospitals.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the reluctance maintained by the PA claimed the lives of nine patients, among whom three babies, since the start of 2017.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West bank, and clashed with dozens of local youngsters, before shooting and injuring eight Palestinians, including a medic, and abducted a young man.
The invasion into the refugee camp was carried out by dozens of soldiers, and several armored military jeeps, before the soldiers stormed homes and violently searched them, causing damage.
The soldiers also fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinians and their homes.
Medical sources said the soldiers fired a live round, from a close range, at medics working with the Palestinian Medical Relief, wounding one in the leg, before invading his home and ransacking it, in addition to attacking his father and abducting his brother.
The soldiers also shot and injured five Palestinians with live rounds, in their legs, and one with a rubber-coated steel bullet, during the clashes that erupted in the refugee camp.
In related news, several army vehicles invaded the al-‘Obeyyat area, east of Bethlehem, searched homes and summoned a young man, identified as Khalil Mohammad Obeyyat, for interrogation at the Etzion military base and security center, south of Bethlehem.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked the family home of Hussein Obeyyat, who was assassinated by the Israeli army in 2000.
The invasion into the refugee camp was carried out by dozens of soldiers, and several armored military jeeps, before the soldiers stormed homes and violently searched them, causing damage.
The soldiers also fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinians and their homes.
Medical sources said the soldiers fired a live round, from a close range, at medics working with the Palestinian Medical Relief, wounding one in the leg, before invading his home and ransacking it, in addition to attacking his father and abducting his brother.
The soldiers also shot and injured five Palestinians with live rounds, in their legs, and one with a rubber-coated steel bullet, during the clashes that erupted in the refugee camp.
In related news, several army vehicles invaded the al-‘Obeyyat area, east of Bethlehem, searched homes and summoned a young man, identified as Khalil Mohammad Obeyyat, for interrogation at the Etzion military base and security center, south of Bethlehem.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked the family home of Hussein Obeyyat, who was assassinated by the Israeli army in 2000.
26 june 2017
Khaled Ghamri, 17, in the intensive care unit of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, central Gaza.
Israeli authorities denied 17-year-old Khaled Ghamri an exit permit to travel from Gaza to Jerusalem, for medical treatment ,after Israeli forces critically injured him during a protest near the Israel-Gaza border on May 23.
Israeli forces across the border fence shot Khaled, then 16, near Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, with live ammunition on May 23, critically injuring him.
The bullet caused an arm fracture, damage to multiple organs, as well as severe bleeding that left him in a coma. On the treating doctor’s recommendation, the family applied for an urgent permit for Khaled and an escort to travel through the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing to Jerusalem for specialized care, but the permit was denied.
“We are waiting to transfer him to the hospital in Jerusalem, but we don’t know why Israel is refusing to let him in through Erez crossing,” said Khaled’s father to Defense for Children International – Palestine. “He has the right to be treated and return home to his family and his school.”
Dr. Iyad Jabri, the head of Surgery and Urology Department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, told DCIP that a single bullet hit Khaled’s right arm, cut through a nerve and caused a fracture. The bullet exited from the other side of this arm, Jabri said, and settled in the right side of Khaled’s stomach, causing damage to the aorta, liver, right kidney, ureter, and intestines.
Khaled underwent surgery to remove his right kidney and repair damage to his aorta. Heavy blood loss carried the possibility of damage to other organs, including his brain, and caused a nine-day coma, according to Jabri.
While Khaled was still in a coma, on May 27, his family applied for permission for Khaled to exit Gaza for treatment in an Israeli hospital but the Israeli Civil Affairs Office handed them a denial decision, according to the boy’s father, Husni Ghamri.
On May 31, when Khaled recovered from the coma, he began daily courses of dialysis to remove toxins in his left kidney.
Ghamri said that he filed a second medical travel permit request on Khaled’s behalf on May 31 and is awaiting a response from Israeli authorities.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 42 percent [PDF] of Palestinian requests for medical travel out of Gaza were denied or delayed by Israeli authorities in April 2017. Of this number, three children were denied and 178 children were delayed care.
WHO also reported that three Palestinians, including a 5-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, died in Gaza in April while waiting for permission to leave for external treatment.
As a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel has obligated itself to recognize children’s right “to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health,” as laid out in Article 24.
Israeli authorities denied 17-year-old Khaled Ghamri an exit permit to travel from Gaza to Jerusalem, for medical treatment ,after Israeli forces critically injured him during a protest near the Israel-Gaza border on May 23.
Israeli forces across the border fence shot Khaled, then 16, near Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, with live ammunition on May 23, critically injuring him.
The bullet caused an arm fracture, damage to multiple organs, as well as severe bleeding that left him in a coma. On the treating doctor’s recommendation, the family applied for an urgent permit for Khaled and an escort to travel through the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing to Jerusalem for specialized care, but the permit was denied.
“We are waiting to transfer him to the hospital in Jerusalem, but we don’t know why Israel is refusing to let him in through Erez crossing,” said Khaled’s father to Defense for Children International – Palestine. “He has the right to be treated and return home to his family and his school.”
Dr. Iyad Jabri, the head of Surgery and Urology Department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, told DCIP that a single bullet hit Khaled’s right arm, cut through a nerve and caused a fracture. The bullet exited from the other side of this arm, Jabri said, and settled in the right side of Khaled’s stomach, causing damage to the aorta, liver, right kidney, ureter, and intestines.
Khaled underwent surgery to remove his right kidney and repair damage to his aorta. Heavy blood loss carried the possibility of damage to other organs, including his brain, and caused a nine-day coma, according to Jabri.
While Khaled was still in a coma, on May 27, his family applied for permission for Khaled to exit Gaza for treatment in an Israeli hospital but the Israeli Civil Affairs Office handed them a denial decision, according to the boy’s father, Husni Ghamri.
On May 31, when Khaled recovered from the coma, he began daily courses of dialysis to remove toxins in his left kidney.
Ghamri said that he filed a second medical travel permit request on Khaled’s behalf on May 31 and is awaiting a response from Israeli authorities.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 42 percent [PDF] of Palestinian requests for medical travel out of Gaza were denied or delayed by Israeli authorities in April 2017. Of this number, three children were denied and 178 children were delayed care.
WHO also reported that three Palestinians, including a 5-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, died in Gaza in April while waiting for permission to leave for external treatment.
As a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel has obligated itself to recognize children’s right “to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health,” as laid out in Article 24.
21 june 2017
Lying in an intensive care room in Rantisi Hospital for Children in Gaza, the 3-year-old Yousuf al-Agha faces the risk of death as the Palestinian Authority (PA) procrastinates in issuing a treatment referral for him.
The angel-faced child suffers from kidney failure and is in a dire need for dialysis on a regular basis as well as many tests and medications that are not available in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
A month ago, the hospital had applied for an urgent medical permit to transfer Agha abroad for treatment, but it has not been approved yet despite the presence of reports confirming that his condition is very critical and that time is a crucial factor in his case.
Director of Rantisi Hospital for Children, Dr. Mohammed Abu Silmiya, affirmed that Agha is at the risk of death at any moment because of the delayed treatment and that he needs to travel immediately.
The PA has recently begun a series of collective punishment measures against the Gaza Strip including denying it of its share of medicines and procrastinating in issuing medical referrals.
The angel-faced child suffers from kidney failure and is in a dire need for dialysis on a regular basis as well as many tests and medications that are not available in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
A month ago, the hospital had applied for an urgent medical permit to transfer Agha abroad for treatment, but it has not been approved yet despite the presence of reports confirming that his condition is very critical and that time is a crucial factor in his case.
Director of Rantisi Hospital for Children, Dr. Mohammed Abu Silmiya, affirmed that Agha is at the risk of death at any moment because of the delayed treatment and that he needs to travel immediately.
The PA has recently begun a series of collective punishment measures against the Gaza Strip including denying it of its share of medicines and procrastinating in issuing medical referrals.
16 june 2017
Two Palestinians were injured by Israeli live bullets and twenty others choked on tear gas during clashes that erupted Friday afternoon with Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) who opened gunfire at the participants in peaceful marches at the flashpoints with IOF troops east of Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporters said that a Palestinian youth was injured by a live bullet in his head while the other was shot in the foot. 20 others suffered breathing problems because of IOF shooting of tear gas grenades directly at the protesters, they elaborated.
The spokesman of Health Ministry Ashraf al-Qudra said, in a press statement, that IOF soldiers fired tear gas grenades at two Palestinian ambulance cars resulting in several suffocation cases among paramedics.
The PIC reporters said that a Palestinian youth was injured by a live bullet in his head while the other was shot in the foot. 20 others suffered breathing problems because of IOF shooting of tear gas grenades directly at the protesters, they elaborated.
The spokesman of Health Ministry Ashraf al-Qudra said, in a press statement, that IOF soldiers fired tear gas grenades at two Palestinian ambulance cars resulting in several suffocation cases among paramedics.
15 june 2017
A senior official at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza has warned that the cardiac catheterization unit at the hospital will stop providing vital services for its patients soon after its storage of main medical supplies has almost run out.
In press remarks to al-Ray news agency, head of the hospital’s cardiac cath unit Mohamed Habib stated that important medical items used in cardiac catheterization at the hospital will run out completely in the coming weeks.
Habib appealed to all concerned parties to supply the hospital’s catheterization unit with its medical needs to continue providing services for the patients and alleviate their suffering.
Al-Shifa Hospital’s catheterization unit conducts about 1,500 therapeutic and diagnostic procedures every year at a rate of 150 operations a month.
In press remarks to al-Ray news agency, head of the hospital’s cardiac cath unit Mohamed Habib stated that important medical items used in cardiac catheterization at the hospital will run out completely in the coming weeks.
Habib appealed to all concerned parties to supply the hospital’s catheterization unit with its medical needs to continue providing services for the patients and alleviate their suffering.
Al-Shifa Hospital’s catheterization unit conducts about 1,500 therapeutic and diagnostic procedures every year at a rate of 150 operations a month.
3 june 2017
The Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza has expressed deep concern that the Israeli occupation army persists in targeting its ambulance crews as they provide medical help for protesters rallying in border areas, east of the embattled Strip.
A spokesman for the ministry denounced the silence of the international community and its institutions on Israel’s violations of the rules of the international law and the fourth Geneva convention regarding the protection of ambulance crews during work.
He affirmed that such international passivity would encourage Israel to commit more crimes against paramedics and civilians in Gaza.
Israeli soldiers on Friday afternoon showered young people, protesting the blockade on Gaza, as well as ambulance crews with tear gas and opened fire at them, which led to injuries among several paramedics.
A spokesman for the ministry denounced the silence of the international community and its institutions on Israel’s violations of the rules of the international law and the fourth Geneva convention regarding the protection of ambulance crews during work.
He affirmed that such international passivity would encourage Israel to commit more crimes against paramedics and civilians in Gaza.
Israeli soldiers on Friday afternoon showered young people, protesting the blockade on Gaza, as well as ambulance crews with tear gas and opened fire at them, which led to injuries among several paramedics.
2 june 2017
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that three young men were shot with live Israeli army fire, and dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, including seven medics, during clashes that erupted along the border fence, in the besieged Gaza Strip.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region, the soldiers shot two young men with live fire, during clashes that took place after the soldiers attacked protesters, marching close to the border fence, in the eastern part of the city.
Medical sources said the two received the needed treatment by field medics, and were transferred to Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, suffering moderate wounds.
The soldiers also shot one Palestinian, in his thirties, with a live round in her right leg, before local medics rushed him to the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Furthermore, soldiers stationed in the Nahal Oz military base, across the border fence, east of the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, in the eastern part of Gaza city, fired many gas bombs at Palestinian protesters, including some that directly struck three ambulances, causing seven medics to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region, the soldiers shot two young men with live fire, during clashes that took place after the soldiers attacked protesters, marching close to the border fence, in the eastern part of the city.
Medical sources said the two received the needed treatment by field medics, and were transferred to Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, suffering moderate wounds.
The soldiers also shot one Palestinian, in his thirties, with a live round in her right leg, before local medics rushed him to the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Furthermore, soldiers stationed in the Nahal Oz military base, across the border fence, east of the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, in the eastern part of Gaza city, fired many gas bombs at Palestinian protesters, including some that directly struck three ambulances, causing seven medics to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation.