Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Please, At the Least, Love The Children

Remember that Golda Meir remark?

The one that goes

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.


Well, read this:

Scores of Palestinian patients being treated in Israeli hospitals, a rare bright spot of coexistence here, are being sent home because the Palestinian Authority has stopped paying for their treatment, partly in anger over the war in Gaza.

Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem says that for the past week, no payments have come in and Palestinians whose children it is treating have been instructed by Palestinian health officials to place them in facilities in the West Bank, Jordan or Egypt.

“Suddenly we have had 57 patients dropped from our rolls,” said Dr. Michael Weintraub, director of pediatric hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Hadassah. “We have been bombarded by frantic parents. This is a political decision taken on the backs of patients.”


and

The Palestinian health minister, Fathi Abu Moghli, said...he had no desire to see the wounded from the Gaza war receive Israeli care.

“We already pay $7 million a month to Israeli hospitals,” he said in a telephone interview. “Since the first day of the Gaza aggression, I said that I will not send to my occupier my injured people in order for him to make propaganda at my expense, and then pay him for it.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, we haven't gotten any Palestinian patients for awhile. The way they treat their own people, or rather, DON'T treat them, is truly chilling. Ironically, Israeli hospitals were actually losing quite a bit of money on this deal.

YMedad said...

Yes, there's this:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3668018,00.html

PA: Hamas converts hospitals into jails

Hamas back to old ways: According to Palestinian Ministry of Health in West Bank, Hamas expels medical staff from Gaza hospitals, takes control of entire wards in order to use them for torture, imprisonment

The Palestinian Health Ministry, run by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, accused Hamas' security apparatus Saturday of commandeering a number of hospital wards in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of converting them into interrogation and imprisonment compounds.

and it seems Amnesty agrees