Report: 24 patients died in Gaza during 24 days this month due to the siege

Source: PIC (Palestinian Information Center), 26-06-2008

BRUSSELS- The European campaign to lift the siege reported that 24 Palestinian patients including children died during 24 days of current June as a result of the lack of medicines and the 'Israeli' restrictions imposed on travel for medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip.

In a report, the campaign said that since 'Israel' started to tighten its siege on Gaza in mid-June
2007, the number of the siege victims rose to 195 out of 1,500 patients suffering difficult health conditions.

The campaign had pointed out in a previous report that 32 Palestinian patients, one third of them were children and infants, died last May while 20 other died in April, which indicates that the number of the siege victims is on the rise every month.

The campaign appealed to Egypt to urgently open the Rafah border crossing to save the Gaza people and to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.