Hamas accuses Israel and the Palestinian Authority of refusing to grant travel documents to sick Gazans

‘The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has accused Israel and the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) of refusing to grant travel documents to Gazans in need of permission to seek medical treatment outside the besieged coastal enclave.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry’s spokesman, Ashraf al-Qudra, said in Gaza on Tuesday that the number of PA permits granted had decreased hugely in recent months.
“Since the beginning of the year, 11 people, most of them children, have died as a result of refusal of travel permits to them by either Israel or the Palestinian Authority,” media outlets quoted the Hamas spokesman as saying.
In recent days, three children have died in Gaza after failing to receive permits to seek treatment outside, the ministry added.
Yusef Abu Rish, the undersecretary of health at the Gaza Health Ministry, told a press conference that “there is a real fear of more deaths with the ongoing banning of medicine from entering (Gaza) and for the sick travel permits for treatment.”‘
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