Cancer patient, 72nd victim of Gaza siege

Eighteen year old cancer patient Mahmoud Hussein died on Saturday after Israeli authorities denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, Palestinian medical sources said.

 

Hussein, from the city of Jabalia, became the 72nd person to die as a result of Israel's crippling closure of the Gaza Strip's border crossings, the according to the Popular Committee for countering the Israeli siege said.

 

Hussein's family said that they applied three times for a travel permit to take their son for treatment not available inside Gaza. They said the Strip's hospitals are not sufficiently equipped to treat cancer.