A delegation of nine Israeli doctors from the Physicians for Human Rights organization will be traveling to Hamas-controlled Gaza on Wednesday. They will be performing surgery, checking patients, and conferring with their Arab colleagues serving in Gaza. They will remain in Gaza until Friday morning.
The group will be made up of a number of senior physicians, including a surgeon, orthopedist, gynecologist, psychologist, as well as a social worker. They will be operating in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and the European Hospital in Khan Yunis.
Gaza health officials report dozens of patients are waiting for the arrival of the delegation, the sixth and the largest since the beginning of 2008. According to officials, the Physicians for Human Rights has been the only Israeli affiliated organization permitted into Gaza since June 2007.
The doctors taking part in the effort are Israeli Arabs. Jewish physicians requesting to take part were turned down for security reasons. Ron Yaron, of the “Occupied Areas Department” of the organization calls the move by Israel discriminatory.
“Doctors of the organization are well-known and enjoy total cooperation in all areas of the occupied territories. Meeting with their Palestinian counterparts is particularly important considering current realities,” stated Yaron.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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4 Responses
Why should Israeli Doctors risk there live to save people that want to kill us?
Hope they come back alive or at least come back
why should israeli doctors risk their lives by working on yom kipur?
#2 and #3,
they are israeli, however, not jewish.the gazans want medical service for nothing but will only accept non-jewish doctors.i think its a big mistake .