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Pirates of the Mediterranean Jul 04 09 Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza Jul 03 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryTwo sick patients, one infant and one adult, die due to ongoing siege on Gaza Saturday May 17, 2008 23:22 by IMEMC News
 Rami Abdo, spokesperson of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, reported on Saturday that an eight-month old infant and a 45-year old man died due to the ongoing siege in Gaza after suffering from serious illnesses and were not allowed to leave the coastal region for medical treatment in abroad. Several patients died in Gaza last week. Abdo stated that Fahidh Tawafeen, 8 months old, suffered from leukemia and her family filed an appeal to the Israeli Authorities more than twenty days ago to allow them transfer her to a hospital outside the Gaza Strip but received no response and the child died at the Al Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. Also, medical sources reported on Saturday morning that Hosny Sobhy Salah, 45, died of a heart condition at a Gaza hospital. The siege on Gaza emptied its hospital from medical equipment and even medications, and Salah had no more medication available. The death of the infant and the 45-year old man raises the number of Palestinians who died due to the ongoing siege in Gaza to 145. Two more patients, identified as Nofouth Hamada, 52, and Mohammad Abdul-Shafy, 51, died at local hospitals in Gaza due to the lack of medications and medical equipment as the siege emptied Gaza hospitals and medical centers from the basic equipment and medical supplies. Hamada was a cancer patient and Abdul-Shafy suffered a heart condition. Furthermore, resident Yasser Arafat Nasyo, 30, died on Saturday after nearly twenty years of suffering due to gunshot injuries he suffered during the first Intifada. He was shot and wounded by Israeli military gunfire, as a bullet penetrated his heart. He underwent several surgeries and always needed ongoing medical attention and follow-up at Egyptian hospital. The ongoing siege on Gaza barred him from leaving the area after the Israeli authorities rejected four requests. Earlier this past week, resident Samia Ahmad Al Saftawi, 55, died of cancer after she ran out of medications and was not allowed to leave Gaza for medical treatment in Egypt. |
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