Gazan baby dies after 4-hour wait to cross border

Source: AFP, 27-8-2007
GAZA CITY: An ill, one-year-old Palestinian baby died in his father`s arms on Sunday after the pair passed several hours under baking sun waiting to cross from the Gaza Strip into "Israel", medics said. Ibrahim Abu Nahel and his father arrived at the Erez border crossing between Gaza and "Israel" at 8 a.m. on Sunday, with the aim of traveling to the Yehelov Hospital near Tel Aviv to get treatment for the baby`s heart condition, they said. The pair waited for four hours in the sun for the "Israeli" authorities to allow them to pass through, despite having had a permit to enter the Jewish (Zionist) state, and Nahel died, they said. The cause of death was not immediately known.