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Monday, January 11, 2010

Gaza: a child dies because of the siege and a man reported dead at a tunnel site

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A Palestinian child was reported dead on Monday after he was unable to leave the Gaza Strip for the medical care he urgently needed.

Three year old Mayisarah Mussa had a heart condition, but doctors were unable to treat him in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing siege. Doctors said that he needed an operation to save his life but the Israeli military did not give his family the necessary permission required for any resident of the Gaza Strip to travel.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, with Mussa's death the number of patients who died because of the Israeli siege has now reached 368. The Israeli military started its siege on the Gaza Strip in June of 2006.... Full story

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