Gaza Strip: Israel stopped Wounded Palestinian Children from Leaving

Wounded Palestinian in the Conflict Zone, July 2024 Photo: @EuroMedHR

July 29, 2024 Hour: 5:16 pm

Last month, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that more than 10,000 Palestinians are waiting to leave Gaza for medical treatment.

On Monday, official sources stated that the Israeli government prevented the departure from Gaza of 150 Palestinian children who were to be transferred to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment.

According to the Wafa news agency, the group, along with family members, had to leave the Ramon air base in southern Israel for the Arab nation on Monday.

Wafa recalled that Benjamin Natenyahu’s cabinet has in recent months delayed or cancelled several trips abroad for injured or sick Gazans.

Last month, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that more than 10,000 Palestinians are waiting to leave Gaza for medical treatment.

While Israel says it’s "got the civilians out of harm’s way" by issuing evacuation orders during its war on #Gaza, here is an important thing you should know about these orders according to international law👇 pic.twitter.com/kkDxwhsDci
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) July 29, 2024

Two weeks earlier, the territory’s health authorities put the number of wounded and sick in need of care abroad at 25,000.

Meanwhile, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor put the number of injured people stranded in the coastal enclave with no possibility of receiving medical care elsewhere at more than 11,000, in addition to 10,000 cancer patients and another 2,000 with various ailments.