Sick Gazans trapped, denied treatment in latest round of Hamas-Fatah power struggle

[Behind the Aegis]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hundreds of Palestinian patients have been trapped in the Gaza Strip, unable to travel abroad for crucial treatment for cancer and other diseases, because of political infighting between Gaza's militant Hamas rulers and their Palestinian rivals.

Eight Gazans who were waiting to travel abroad have died since the crisis began in March, when the dispute shut down a medical referral committee that helps sick residents find treatment outside of Gaza, according to the World Health Organization.

Others are hanging on, waiting. Ten-year-old Ribhi Jindiyeh, a lymphoma patient, lies in bed at home, skinny and jaundiced, too weak to move. He underwent chemotherapy last year in an Israeli hospital, and when he returned home in January, he seemed better. But in March, he began urinating blood.

Gaza doctors can't find the problem and give him infusions every two days to keep him alive.

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[Ozymanithrax]

1. This is disgusting.

They should not consign their citizens children to death over political differences.

[excess_3]

2. you have a very narrow view of the world

people who live in a tribal society
(those concerned here)
will have a different opinion.

[LeftishBrit]

3. So that makes it OK for children to be allowed to die?

[Igel]

4. Depends upon who's doing the judging.

If I'm doing it, no, it doesn't make it ok. Obviously others, those with authority in this instance, disagree.

It's important to separate out the act of comprehension from the act of forming an opinion. I keep trying to put myself in anothers' shoes--and find that I'm not quite there yet wrt various Arab ethnicities. But every fact helps me set parameters for the relevant constraints.

The opinions of Hamas and PA leaders matter. Mine, not a whit, so I think understanding is more important.

[Vegasaurus]

6. Oh, the "tribal society"

or "non-western culture" excuses for honor killings, murder, kidnappings, denying children treatment.

So non-Westerners don't know anything about common decency or care for children?

[pelsar]

7. thats not the point...its a different culture....

which raises the core of the problem...The PA culture, as per those examples is NOT a western based culture with western values..yet the "agreements" pushed by the west are all naturally based on western culture.....so why are their expectations that the PA would even abide by them?

why is there this illusion that the PA culture is a western culture with western values when they show time and time again that they in fact are a different culture with a different value system?

[ProgressiveMuslim]

8. WTF does that mean?

[pelsar]

10. it means...

that different " languages" are being spoken and different standards are being used......that makes it rather difficult to enter into a "contract".

would you sign a contract knowing full well that the other person from the start interprets it differently? and has different expectations?

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are you going to actually claim that the PA culture is based on the western value system?.......or is it arab/muslim/middle east?

(and please dont try selling me that they are the same....try that on the niave for your support)

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from you point of view, you can claim that the zionists only use the "western system" as a cover for their tricks and hence are also "non western".....so you'll have to define this zionist culture as perhaps a hybird of different value systems (probably taking the worst of all of them.....)

[ProgressiveMuslim]

11. WTF is "PA" culture? Is that some new IOF slang? Backtalk from Ynet?

Thinly veiled racist BS.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

5. From the same source: Offensive hits Gaza's children especially hard

Children, who make up more than half of Gaza's population of 1.4 million, are the most defenseless victims of the urban battles between the Israeli army and Hamas guerillas...

[ProgressiveMuslim]

9. Let's cut the shit. Aid sits rotting outside Erez. NO reconstruction has begun.

All this fake concern for sick Gazans is sickening.