Palestinian NGO admits: Palestinian cancer patients from Gaza and the West Bank were treated in Israel
Palestinian anti-cancer nonprofit Mariam Foundation Director Muhammad Hamed: “Even before the aggression on Gaza (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war), we had problems with the cancer patients in the Gaza Strip because they are not being treated like other cancer patients in the world, since there is no radiation treatment [in Gaza]. There wasn’t any in the West Bank either, and therefore 90% of the cancer patient children in the Gaza Strip, and the cancer patients in Gaza, were treated in the occupied Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel). Since the aggression, these children and these patients are no longer allowed to complete the treatment. We are talking about 800 cancer patients (sic., 400) who are still [waiting] from before Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre) in the West Bank and the occupied Interior… Each one has one person accompanying them. We are talking about approximately 400 patients, but 10,000 cancer patients have completely lost the treatment.”
[Official PA TV, June 16, 2024]