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To: Sully- who wrote (65364)	4/4/2008 5:42:59 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

Hadassah Hears A WHO:Cure For Rockets Against Sderot? Facetiously, what if the world-leading Hadassah hospital opened a facility in Sderot, just to care for desperately ill Gazans? Would Hamas stop its terror rockets against Sderot? What do you think? The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative for Gaza and the West Bank issued a report criticizing Israeli security for slowing the access of Gazans to Israeli hospitals, saying – as the Associated Press reports -- “The U.N. agency listed 32 cases since October in which Gaza residents, ranging from a 1-year-old child to a 77-year-old man, died because they could not obtain urgent medical treatment.” However, deep in the AP article we find: In 2006, Israel admitted 4,932 patients from Gaza. In 2007, that number jumped to 7,176, with more than half of the patients, or 4,084, being admitted between July 1 and Dec. 31, after the Hamas takeover. Israel has replied: Col. Nir Press, commander of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, rejected the report which he said was mistaken and ignored the fact that of the five case studies presented by the WHO, two of the sick Palestinians were in fact treated in Israeli hospitals. The other three, he said, were all granted permits that were never used due to internal Palestinian considerations. Press said that while the IDF was stringent with its screening of sick Palestinians - due to daily terror attacks in Gaza and attempts to smuggle suicide bombers into Israel this way - over 90 percent of the requests were approved to visit Israeli hospitals…. The 10 percent denied permits - due to security threats - are, however, given the opportunity to take an Israeli shuttle to the Allenby Bridge and cross into Jordan or down to a crossing into Egypt. One might also ask WHO to report on where the hundreds of millions of dollars contributed by Hamas supporters has gone, to rockets fired against Israel or to hospitals in Gaza? democracy-project.com tank.nationalreview.com