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\r\n\tPIC reported:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tIsraeli arbitrary procedures towards Palestinians at Erez Crossing resulted in the death of a Palestinian patient, Yousef Younis, as he was not allowed to reach hospital, according to Al Mezan Center For Human Rights.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tAl Mezan said Israeli forces arrested and tortured the Palestinian blood cancer patient Yousef Younis, 19, from northern Gaza Strip at an Israeli checkpoint on his way to hospital.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tAl Mezan stated that Israeli forces arrested Yousef on April 14, 2016 at an Israeli checkpoint near Arraba southwest of Jenin, after he had passed through Erez Crossing to get to An-Najah National University Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tYousef told al Mezan’s lawyer after he was released that he had been kept in Israeli Asqalan ('Ashkelon') prison for 13 days.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThere, he was physically and psychologically tortured. He was cuffed and forced to sit on a small iron stool, and he was verbally insulted, extorted and blackmailed.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tOn June 28, he got an appointment for treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in occupied Jerusalem. He stayed in hospital until July 5, and then he returned to Gaza waiting for a new appointment to undergo bone marrow transplant surgery.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tWhen he got an appointment for the surgery at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on July 11, he applied for an Israeli permit to leave Gaza, but he was denied.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tFour days later, Yousef received a call from the Israeli Intelligence trying to blackmail him to work as a collaborator for the Israeli military in return for a permission to leave Gaza.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tWhen he refused, he was denied leaving Gaza until he died on August 8.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tAccording to al Mezan, the Israeli authorities continue to break the international humanitarian law by depriving the Palestinian civilians of the Gaza Strip of their rights to movement and receiving medicine.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tSince the start of the year 2016, the Israeli forces have arrested 20 Palestinians at Erez Crossing, of whom 5 patients and 4 attendants.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tIsrael is still ignoring 67 patients’ applications from Gaza to leave through Erez Crossing to receive medicine.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2016-08-16 15:25:41","content_date_finish":"2016-08-16 15:25:41","content_date_register":"2016-08-16 15:25:41","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"127700","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2530813116","attach_date_register":"2016-08-16 15:25:44","attach_id":"136226","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"800","attach_img_height":"422","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"119","visit_date_last":"2025-05-12 19:47:52","attach_title":"Israel continues to blackmail Gaza patients","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]