The infant Omar Yaghi died 8 months last Thursday as a result of a heart disease following the postponement of a surgery that was scheduled in an Israeli hospital for a month.
The infant was to have an operation at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, but the appointment was postponed due to the stalling of coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
The Physicians for Human Rights Association said: Omar was supposed to leave Gaza and undergo surgery at Sheba Hospital on May 24. He was able to submit to the process with the help of the Shabat Ahim Association, which provided full funding for the medical procedure, and even helped coordinate the child´s entry from Gaza to Israel. However, after the announcement of the Palestinian Authority in May, the plan was disturbed by the suspension of coordination with Israel due to the annexation plan.
The Israeli authorities agreed to grant Omar an exit permit after it was submitted by the Physicians for Human Rights Association, and the date of the operation was decided at Sheba Hospital on June 21. However, the child died, just 3 days before the operation, at the age of only eight months, and before he underwent the operation that was intended to save his life.
A few weeks ago, the Physicians Society for Human Rights warned that hundreds of Palestinian patients are not receiving health care due to the collapse of the coordination bodies, among them are cancer patients and patients living in serious health conditions for other reasons, and they need urgent treatments that will save their lives.
According to the association, there has recently been a sharp increase in the number of Palestinian patients from both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank who have gone to them, asking for aid to undergo health treatments that are not available in their places of residence.
The association stressed that "the situation is much more dangerous in terms of the invading patients, as most of them used to receive treatment in hospitals in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and there is no longer any official Palestinian authority that follows their requests."
This week, human rights organizations went to the Minister of the Army, Benny Gantz, the Judicial Adviser to the government Avihai Mandelblit, and the government´s coordinator in the occupied territories, Camille Abu Rukan, asking them to guarantee freedom of movement for Palestinians in need of leaving Gaza, from Without requiring that this movement be linked to the work of the Palestinian coordination bodies whose work has been frozen.
In a message sent on Thursday 18-6, Physicians´ Associations for Human Rights and the Center for the Rights of the Individual (HaMoked), the Association for Citizen Rights, and its Army-Maslak, and Adalah demanded that Israel immediately settle the issue of bureaucratic restrictions imposed on submitting requests for entry permits, and allow immediate entry The needy from Gaza for medical and humanitarian purposes.
The associations also demanded that Israel organize a new mechanism through which the residents of Gaza can submit requests to obtain exit permits without these requests passing through the Civil Committee, and they also demanded that Israel publish the details of the new mechanism to the public.
And it was stated in the associations ’message:“ Israel is the exclusive controller of the crossings. It is the one that freely controls the movement of the residents of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Civil Committee, represented by the Palestinian Civil Committee in the Gaza Strip, is only a secondary authority entrusted with organizing movement. ".
