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Palestinians are seen crossing at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2018. (AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)
August 27, 2018, 3:17 pm
Court rules state must allow Hamas relatives into Israel for cancer treatment
Rights groups hail decision but say thousands at risk from ‘restrictive access policy’; right-wing MK slams ‘lack of responsibility shown by judges’ for country’s security
By TOI staff
Trucks are seen at the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
August 13, 2018, 7:06 pm
Rights groups file petition calling on Israel to renew entry of goods into Gaza
Leftist NGOs ask High Court to overrule ‘immoral and illegal’ decision to ban fuel and other products from Strip in response to arson attacks
By TOI staff
Avraham Avera Mengistu, undated. (Courtesy of the Mengistu family via AP)
July 26, 2018, 4:32 pm
Family of Israeli held in Gaza sent video to Hamas begging for his release
Physicians for Human Rights Israel aid group passed the clip, along with documents proving Avera Mengistu’s mental illness, to the terror group in 2016
By TOI staff
Trucks are seen at the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
July 17, 2018, 8:41 pm
Rights groups urge halt to ‘collective punishment’ at Gaza goods crossing
12 organizations call on Israel to resume regular operations at Kerem Shalom, labeling the recent restrictions, imposed after rocket barrage, ‘dangerous, irresponsible’
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian woman receives treatment at the Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Holon, on April 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 3, 2018, 4:57 pm
Israeli doctors urge 14 Gaza cancer patients be allowed out for treatment
Oncologists warn that delaying diagnosis and treatment can lead to deaths; rights group says 14 Palestinian women are waiting for permission to enter Israel
By Stuart Winer
A wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza Strip on the eastern outskirts of Jabaliya on May 11, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
May 12, 2018, 1:22 pm
Medical NGO: Israel must allow wounded protesters to leave Gaza for treatment
Local head of Physicians for Human Rights says ‘even in times of war and conflict, and certainly when dealing with unarmed demonstrators, we must retain our humanity’
By TOI staff
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas listens during a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on May 16, 2014. photo credit: AFP/JUAN BARRETO)
August 21, 2017, 4:07 pm
Israeli general mocks Abbas for sending medical aid to Venezuela
Defense Ministry coordinator in West Bank points out Latin American country ‘is more than 10,000 kilometers from Ramallah’ while the beleaguered Gaza Strip is just next door
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative: Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian rioter in Wadi Joz, near the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
August 16, 2017, 7:25 pm
Police accused of assaulting staff, patients at East Jerusalem hospital
Left-wing group says border guards used violence while searching for rioters, may have caused the death of a patient
By TOI staff
Illustrative image of a Palestinian nurse tending to a newborn at the neonatal intensive care unit at the UAE hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 27, 2017. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
June 30, 2017, 1:48 pm
PA to again allow Gazan patients to be treated in Israeli hospitals
Outcry after deaths of three babies prompts Palestinian Health Ministry to issue more permits and funding for treatment
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a premature baby at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 28, 2017, 7:30 pm
Israel denies PA claim it’s responsible for deaths of 3 Gaza infants
After Hamas blamed Abbas, Ramallah said Israel refused family of babies entry permits; Israel says no applications received
By Dov Lieber
A newborn is seen inside an incubator at the neonatal intensive care unit at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on April 23, 2017. (Said Khatib/AFP)
June 27, 2017, 9:30 pm
Abbas blamed as 3 Gazan babies die after denied Israel entry permits
Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says other infants are in imminent danger of a similar fate
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative: International Red Cross members securing transport for sick Palestinians from Gaza into Israel for medical treatment at the Erez Crossing on June 19, 2007. (Ahmad Khateib/ Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 12:57 pm
Amid Hamas feud, PA said delaying Gazans’ medical treatment in Israel
Gaza residents and NGO report longer waits for permits, coinciding with increased pressure on Strip’s terrorist rulers
By Alexander Fulbright
The nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants (Brauner Teddy/GPO)
June 16, 2017, 6:28 am
When Israeli doctors allegedly tested Yemenites for ‘Negro blood’
Lawmakers reexamine 20-year-old testimonies alleging medical experiments on new immigrants in 1950s, but make no demand for further action
By Marissa Newman
33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 3-year-old patient Yaqin Shawaf, who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City, March 17, 2016. (AP/Adel Hana)
June 14, 2017, 5:29 am
With Gaza ailing, PA accused of slashing medical aid by nearly 90%
Officials say Ramallah has reduced the money it gives for healthcare from $4 million to $500,000, leaving patients without medicine and equipment. As power is cut, it will only get worse
By Dov Lieber
Protesters hold portraits of Palestinian security prisoners during a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah to show their support of Palestinians detained in Israeli jails, after hundreds of them launched a hunger strike on April 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
May 7, 2017, 9:27 pm
3 weeks into hunger strike, Palestinian inmates add vitamins
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel slams proposal to import doctors to force feed prisoners, set up field hospitals
By AP and TOI staff
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