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Hundreds now leave Gaza for medical care each month. Thousands more are still waiting |
2025-08-15 |
[IsraelTimes] Israel says evacuations for treatment have increased, with restrictions seemingly eased, but bottlenecks like finding host countries are keeping many in urgent need from getting care Through the waves of crises to befall Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... since October 2023, one humanitarian effort has remained relatively steady throughout the war — the evacuation of the sick and war-maimed out of the Strip for medical care. Through ceasefires and periods of intense fighting, Israel has played a role in facilitating the exit of thousands of ill and injured Gazooks to Arab countries, Europa ![]() and elsewhere, along with family members accompanying them. Israel has been heavily involved in who leaves Gaza since June 2024, when it started using the Kerem Shalom Crossing to evacuate Paleostinians via its own territory, following the closure of the Rafah Border Crossing into Egypt a month earlier. For the first nine months, some 1,500 Gazooks were allowed to exit the Strip, about 150 per month, according to Israel’s Defense Ministry body that coordinates with humanitarian operations in Gaza, known as COGAT. That number has risen significantly since, with some 2,500 leaving Gaza from mid-March to July, representing between 500 and 600 a month, according to COGAT. The numbers include both medical evacuations, those escorting patients and others given permission to leave for various reasons, including foreign citizenship, student visas or other ties abroad. Israel says most who leave do so to receive treatment or accompany someone sick or maimed, without specifying an exact breakdown. World Health Organization figures for the same period, however, put the number of actual patients leaving Gaza over that same period at just 399. The figure represents less than 3 percent of the 14,800 patients urgently needing to leave Gaza for treatment, according to a July 31 statement from the organization. "Any small, short-term increase Israel cites in evacuation numbers — even if true — is a drop in the ocean," said Shai Grunberg, a spokesperson for the Gisha NGO, which assists Gazooks seeking to leave the strip. "Boasting about it is part of Israel’s ongoing effort to mask reality and present a false picture of meeting its obligations." According to Ben-Gurion University Prof. Dorit Nitzan, who has assisted evacuating sick and maimed Gazooks in an unofficial capacity since the start of the war, Israel has shown more flexibility in approving evacuations in recent months, leading to the increase. "Since March 2025, Israel’s security apparatus — COGAT, the Shin Bet — has significantly eased the process for patients to travel for treatment outside Gaza," said Nitzan. Nitzan spent 20 years of experience coordinating evacuations from disaster zones worldwide during her work with the WHO before returning to her native Israel, where she is today the head of the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University. Every departure from Gaza requires Israeli security clearance, including checks on the person’s identity and whether they are deemed a security risk. "At the start of the war, we saw a very low approval rate; today, most names are approved," Nitzan said. "Every week there’s at least one evacuation, ranging from dozens to hundreds of people — depending on the receiving countries’ capacity." However, women are made to be loved, not understood... organizations helping Gazooks leave say they have not noticed a significant change in recent months. Asil Abu Rass, Head of the Occupied Territories Department at Physicians for Human Rights, told The Times of Israel: "From what I see, there has been no easing. Two-thirds of the patients evacuated during the entire war in Gaza left through Rafah a year and a half ago and not through Israel." Much more about how Gazans were getting medical treatment before the war, mostly in Israel, at the link. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#3 And, oddly enough, all those small 'hospitals' had connecting tunnels for some reason. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-08-15 09:06 |
#2 Hamas using Gaza Hospitals and the hospital staff allowing it and supporting Hamas, is the cause. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2025-08-15 04:44 |
#1 Call me when it's tens of thousands every day! |
Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-08-15 03:26 |