[ 09/07/2011 – 05:36 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)– The Health Ministry has strongly condemned Israel’s inhumane arrest of Aaid Rafeeq Abdul-Jawwad Ziyada, 27, while he was crossing borders to get medical attention in Jordan.
The ministry said in a statement on Saturday: “Not only have [Israeli] occupation authorities prevented medicines and medical consumables from entering to the Gaza Strip’s patients…but it has increased its abusive and unethical practices by extorting the patients transferred abroad who use the Beit Hanoun crossing to move to the outside world for treatment.”
According to figures provided by the ministry in the fresh statement, 140 medicines and 160 medical consumables are out of stock in the Gaza Strip.
The ministry called on the Red Cross and rights groups to urgently intervene and help stop Israel’s violations of humanitarian and international law.
The ministry also called on Egyptian authorities to ease restrictions at the Rafah crossing on its border with the Strip, as it is the only outlet for the besieged coastal enclave. It emphasized the need to facilitate travel of Gaza patients, who have been transferred abroad to get treatment, and to allow needed medicines into the Strip.
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