|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/11/2502.htm
180,000 Palestinians Treated in Israeli Hospitals Last Year
(Israel Defense Forces) Tamara Shavit - "Up until September 2000, a Ramallah resident could have taken his car and driven to Ichilov Hospital [in Israel]," Commander of the Judea and Samaria Division Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon told a conference on humanitarian medicine on Nov. 22 in Jerusalem. "From September 2000 we've been in a state of terror. Hundreds were killed, Jews and Palestinians alike." But today, he says, stability has been restored. Dr. Tawfik Nasr, Director of the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem and coordinator of all hospitals in east Jerusalem, described the example of patients coming from Gaza to be treated in Jerusalem, sometimes over a period of three to four months. They are housed in a special hotel on the Mount of Olives. Dalia Basa, medical coordinator of the Israeli Civil Administration, reported that last year 180,000 Palestinians entered Israel to receive treatment.