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Gaza Officials "Taking Bribes" to Let Healthy People on Medical Flights
(Telegraph-UK) Paul Nuki - Officials within the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza are taking bribes to place healthy people on medical evacuation lists, the families of ill and injured Gazans have claimed. Healthy people are said to have acquired forged medical papers by saying they require evacuation on medical grounds. Gazan refugee Ramzi Herzallah organized demonstrations in front of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis after discovering that "healthy individuals were being evacuated instead of [genuine] patients, using forged medical reports," while trying to get his sick father out of the strip. Exiled Gazan activist Hamza al-Masri said, "The protesters emphasized that there is clear discrimination and corruption in the mechanism for selecting names permitted to travel for treatment. They pointed out that priority has shifted to those who pay money to certain doctors and officials affiliated with the Hamas government, while the remaining patients and wounded are left to their fate."