Ten thousand cancer patients in the Gaza Strip face the risk of death the deterioration of their health conditions, with the continued closure of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt for the fourth consecutive month and no opportunity for treatment within the stricken Strip.
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In a statement issued today, Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced, “Ten thousand cancer patients need treatment outside the Strip due to the collapse of the health system.”
Patients and wounded in the Gaza Strip have been deprived of traveling for treatment abroad since the occupation and the closure of the Rafah crossing 100 days ago.
The Ministry of Health warned in its statement that “the occupation deliberately kills children in the Strip as part of a genocidal war.”
Yesterday, Wednesday, the government media office in the Gaza Strip stated, “The Israeli occupation army continues to close the crossing for 100 days, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,000 children, patients, and wounded,” noting that the humanitarian catastrophe deepens in the Gaza Strip on all levels.
The media office explained that “the occupation prevented 25,000 patients and wounded who have travel requests and referrals for treatment abroad since the closure of the crossing.”
Due to this ban, more than 1,000 children, patients, and wounded individuals have died in 100 days, and the lives of the rest are threatened with death due to the inhumane and unethical policy of the occupation in preventing them from traveling for treatment, according to the government media office.
The Israeli occupation army has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of October last year, with its aircraft targeting the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers, and the homes of Palestinian civilians, destroying them over the heads of their inhabitants.
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