Palestine Today 051909

A child in Gaza dies due to the Israeli siege, and the military kidnaps nine civilians from the West Bank, These stories and more coming up, stay tuned.

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Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday that a 1-year old infant died at a local hospital in Rafah due to several complications, as his transfer to a hospital outside of the Gaza Strip was not possible due to the ongoing Israeli siege.
The ministry of interior in Gaza reported that the lack of medical equipment to deal with his case led to the death of the child, though Gaza physicians successfully dealt with similar cases before the siege.
The boy is the second to die since Monday due to the siege, the ten-year old child had cancer and the army did not allow him to leave Gaza.
Over 300 patients have died since June 2007, when the elected Hamas government began its administration in Gaza, and the Israeli government implemented a full closure on the Strip.

Virtually no one has been able to enter or leave the besieged coastal Strip, and supplies of needed medicines and equipment are dwindling to near nothing in Gaza's hospitals and clinics.

Two civilians were injured and nine others kidnapped during military attacks in several parts of the West Bank on Tuesday at dawn.

Two Palestinian workers sustained moderate wounds when soldiers manning a checkpoint near Hebron shoot them, local sources said the two workers were coming back from Nagiv where they work.

Five civilians were kidnapped when troops attacked and searched homes in Hebron city during pre dawn invasion on Tuesday. Meanwhile another four were kidnapped during invasions targeting the southern Bethlehem City an central city of Ramallah.


Later in the day A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian resident in Hebron old city on Tuesday midday. Witnesses reported that he settlers throw stones and empty gals bottles and shoppers in the old market, but no injuries were reported.

Also on Tuesday armed settlers attacked Palestinian famers while working on their land in areas located between the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Qalqilia.
The famers said that the settler attacked them with batons and rifle buts and injured a number of them.

The farmers added that the setters threatened to come and destroy the land if farmers came back to work in it.

Conclusion

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