| July 18, 2008 A ten-month old Palestinian
infant has joined on Thursday the caravan of sick Palestinian
citizens who died due to the Israeli blockade and closure of the
crossings of Gaza Strip, raising to 46 the number of children
who died due to the siege, Palestinian medical sources revealed.
More than 211 Palestinian citizens, including children,
women, and elderly people died as a result of the unjust Israeli
siege on Gaza Strip since June of last year. The IOA denied sick
Palestinians permits to seek medical treatment outside the Gaza
Strip.
The PA health ministry identified the victim as Waseem Iyad
Hammad of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanon, saying
that Hammad was the nineteenth victim since the IOA accepted the
clam agreement in the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday morning, another Palestinian child identified as
Emad Al-Owaini, 6, died after the IOA refused to grant him
departure permit.
But the ministry accused the Israeli occupation government of
not abiding by its obligations towards the Palestinian people as
stipulated in the truce agreement, and refused to open the
border crossings, especially the vital Rafah crossing, in order
to allow Palestinian patients to travel abroad for proper
medical treatment.
The ministry also warned of the Israeli organized targeting
of Palestinian children, asserting that the international
community should immediately intervene with the aim to stop the
Israeli "organized ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in
the Gaza Strip".
In addition, the ministry urged the UNICEF and all
international bodies catering for the protection and welfare of
children world-wide to carry out their mandates in protecting
the children of occupied Palestine in the face of Israeli crimes
against them.
IOF troops cause loss of hearing to a
Palestinian teenager
Meanwhile, Eighteen-year-old Abdullah Khalaf has lost, on
Friday, his hearing when he was hit by a stun grenade fired by
the IOF troops who raided the village of Eizaryyah to the east
of occupied Jerusalem.
The stun grenade hit the teenager in the face causing, in
addition to permanent loss of hearing, burns to his face and
hair.
Munketh Abu Roumi, director of the press office of Asrana
society in Jerusalem district, said that as Abdullah came out of
his house to go to an outside toilet he was surprised by the
bomb fired at him by the IOF troops.
Abdallah was previously arrested by the IOF and sentenced to
serve a prison term by the Ofer military court near Ramallah.
Meanwhile, IOF troops arrested on Thursday evening and Friday
morning arrested 13 young Palestinians from the villages Madma
and Asira al-Qibeya near Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In the past week alone the IOF troops conducted 40 incursions
into West Bank villages, towns and refugee camps and arrested 66
Palestinians, including 7 minors, during those incursions
according to a weekly report issued by the Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights. |
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