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Gazans' Access to Care Faulted
Aug. 5 2008
By Linda Gradstein
Israel's domestic security service requires Gazans who wish to enter Israel for medical treatment to submit to detailed interviews about their knowledge of political and militant groups, according to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, a nonprofit group based in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli security service "uses the weakness, the helplessness of the Palestinian patients in Gaza in trying to pressure them to be collaborators," said Ruchama Marton, the group's founder. In a report released Monday, the group documents 32 cases of Palestinians who said they were told that a permit to enter Israel for medical care was conditional on being willing to deliver information.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the charges in the report were "ludicrous." He also criticized the report's methodology, saying the group only interviewed Palestinians whose requests to enter Israel had been refused.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 5 August 2008
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