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From JP:

"Israeli hospitals continue to treat sick Gazans despite missile attacks"

While Hamas terrorists continued to hurl rockets and missiles at Israel, including the city of Haifa, Rambam Medical Center is now treating 20 Palestinians, including eight children from Gaza. The largest hospital in Haifa said on Thursday that it provides medical care to Palestinians year round. The latest group to come were 11 from the Palestinian Authority area and nine more from Gaza who needed outpatient care. Most of them are children suffering from cancer or kidney disease who cannot get adequate care near their homes. They were accompanied by family members. Some children are also hospitalized at Rambam over the long term. Every year, hundreds of Palestinian outpatients and inpatients, including some 650 children and teens, are treated at the Haifa medical center. Some of them come with very difficult conditions that require hospitalization. Yazid Fallah, who coordinates medical treatment at the hospital for Palestinians, said that “despite the security situation and the fact that the two sides are fighting each other, medical care for children and adults continues as usual.” He added that the Gaza patients “feel locked up in an impossible situation. On the one hand, they are in Israel and see what Gaza terrorists have done, and at the same team they see how their own population is being hurt by retaliatory attacks from Israel and are worried for the safety of their families.” Fallah reported that some Palestinian patients are ashamed of what the terrorists have done, but are afraid to return to Gaza out of concerned that they would be punished for going to an Israeli hospital for treatment. In general, they want to live quietly, but it’s clear to them that the situation has changed for the worse and is declining,” the Rambam staffer said. Yet despite the insane political situation, “the human factor is victorious. Long-term patients from Gaza have a presence that people are used to and there are good relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Fallah said. When this round of terrorism and bombing began, Palestinian patients feared they would encounter antagonism. “We calmed then down and said there is no such danger in an Israeli hospital. We see humans and not antagonists. Israeli patients try to make the Palestinian patients feel comfortable. They believe that they are all in the same boat.” Meanwhile, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said that there is a shortage in petrol, medical equipment, rescue vehicles, medical teams and medications   in Gaza hospitals. The health system there may collapse, the PHRI said. There are some 500 wounded in the hospitals. More than half of them are at Shifa Hospital, the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip. The voluntary organization of Israeli doctors also said that some medical facilities have suffered damage from the retaliatory Israel Air Force attacks.

^ I saw similar stories during the last major Palestinian air raids against Israel almost 2 years ago. Israel could easily just say that the Palestinians are bombing Israel and so no Palestinian can come into the country for any reason and yet they don't. They continue to treat the sick and wounded. I know that doctors are supposed to help any wounded person regardless of who they are so it is nice to see that is still happening despite the bombing. It's worth noting that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted the terrorist-group Hamas into power knowing what their goals were (the destruction of Israel) and just recently the Palestinians in the West Bank allied themselves with Hamas and Gaza. All of this open support for terrorism shows the Palestinians' willingness to murder innocent men, women and children while at the same time they try to play the victim themselves. If the Palestinians stopped bombing Israeli cities and stopped killing Israelis (ie the 3 teens) then Israel would stop bombing them and killing Palestinians. The Palestinians need to come to grips with reality. If they stop bombing Israel then Israel will be more likely to give them what they want, but Israel won't be swayed when they are attacked. Israel withdrew with Gaza several years ago when there was a lull in the violence so that shows Israel's willingness. ^

http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Israeli-hospitals-continue-to-treat-sick-Gazans-despite-missile-attacks-362269