One such case involves A 20-year old woman who was turned back to Gaza after she refused to cooperate with Israeli security for information from Gaza, Miri Weingarten from a human rights group has said.
A rights group appealed Monday to Israeli authorities to let eight Gaza patients leave the territory immediately for treatment because their conditions were life-threatening.
Physicians for Human Rights said the patients were turned away twice in the last two weeks on unspecified security grounds, though Israeli doctors have qualified their cases as "urgent."
Since June, Gaza's crossings with Egypt and Israel have been closed following the Hamas takeover in June, though the border with Israel has been occasionally opened for humanitarian cases.
Ahmed Abu Ghaza, said in September, almost 200 patients, not all of them urgent, were turned back, while 600 were allowed into Israel.
"No specific explanations were given," said Miri Weingarten of the human rights group. "Israel still controls all the sources of sustenance for Gaza. It still bears full responsibility for the health care of Gaza civilians."
PHR said it is filing an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court to reverse the decisions. A similar appeal was rejected in June. Israel withdrew from Gaza two years ago.
Shlomo Dror, an Israeli army spokesman, said a security assessment and the level of danger to the life of patients determine who gets access to or through Israel.
One patient turned back is a 16-year old girl with a heart condition who needs immediate surgery in the West Bank city of Nablus, Weingarten said. Another is a 27-year deaf patient with a brain tumor who needs treatment in east Jerusalem.
To reject those patients "is quite ridiculous," Weingarten said.
A third patient, who was already treated for cancer twice in Israel this year, is suffering from a relapse and was urgently referred to a hospital in Tel Aviv.
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