While the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was examining the proposal for a hostage deal, Israel’s News 13 reported that members of his family were receiving lifesaving treatment at Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva. Several of Haniyeh’s sisters are Israeli citizens through marriage to Bedouins and live in Tel Sheva. In recent days, one of Haniyeh’s nieces gave birth to a baby in Soroka hospital. The baby was born prematurely and is in the neonatal intensive care unit. The medical staff at the hospital have been working to save his life. For the members of the medical team, this is not an easy situation at all due to the closeness of the family to Haniyeh, and the understanding that the leader of the terrorist organisation responsible for the October 7 massacre is a family member of that baby, but they understand it is their duty to take care of him since he is ultimately an Israeli citizen. Therefore, despite the difficulties, the staff are treating the case professionally. Haniyeh’s relatives who do not live in Israel or hold Israeli citizenship have also received urgent medical treatment in Israeli hospitals in the past.
In October 2014, shortly after the end of Operation Protective Edge, one of Haniyeh’s daughters, then in her 20s, received emergency treatment at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. She was transferred to Israel through the Erez crossing. In November 2013, Aamal, Haniyeh’s young granddaughter, was hospitalised in critical condition in Israel. She was evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva through the Erez crossing due to a serious illness in her digestive tract. Her passage was approved in Israel due to humanitarian needs, but when the doctors realised her condition was critical, she was returned to Gaza to be with her family. She died shortly after. In 2012, Haniyeh’s sister, Suhila Abdel Salam, entered Israel with her sick husband, who received urgent medical treatment at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. In March of that year, he suffered a heart attack, which could not be treated in the hospitals in Gaza. The couple submitted a request to cross into Israel in order to receive urgent medical treatment and the husband was taken in a Palestinian ambulance to the Erez crossing, where he was transferred to an Israeli vehicle.
Source: The Australian
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