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by judyinjerusalem | November 16, 2008 at 01:39 am
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- For several years, the Rapporteur to the UN Commission on Human Rights (now the UN Human Rights Council) and human rights groups criticized the Israeli government and health care system for denying access to Gazans seeking to receive permits for care in hospitals in Israel, the PA and Jordan. But guess what, data show that the number of patients receiving permits for referrals to hospitals in Israel - or the PA or Jordan - increased by 45 percent from 4,932 in 2006 to 7,176 in 2007, and continued to increase in the first six months of 2008. These trends occurred despite a decline in entry approval rates, mostly because of security reasons. The facts are that Israel has provided ever increasing numbers of approvals of permits since the Hamas takeover of Gaza, despite increasing rocket attacks on Israel's civilian population, including mortar and terror attacks directed at the Erez crossing used by patients. At the same time, there have been at least 20 incidents where Palestinians used medical missions to attempt terror attacks.
- go to http://tinyurl.com/6g6pow for the complete story...
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at 06:39 on November 16th, 2008
I have read about several people dying while waiting to cross the border into "Israel' including a frail old man. Give back the stolen land and creat a two state solution. Failing that at least stop bombing Palestinian civilians and Syrians (the last point has happened)