[[{"content_id":"100772","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"2 more Palestinian patients die under siege","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2008-01-12 15:24:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":" \r\nA Palestinian cancer patient died Saturday morning in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, after the Israeli occupation authority refused to allow him to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, medical sources announced.\r\n \r\nThe sources identified the man as Yehya Al-Jamal, 53, who was denied permission to travel abroad by Zionist regime and could not find proper treatment in the besieged Strip.\r\n \r\nAt dawn Friday, another Palestinian patient died in Gaza city due to the IOA tight siege imposed for seven months and the closure of all crossings.\r\n \r\nMedical sources said that Hassan Salmi, 60, suffered from kidney failure and could not receive proper treatment in the Strip due to the lack of medicines, which are barely allowed into the Strip.\r\n \r\nOne of the victim's brothers underlined that he obtained a permit from the PA health ministry for treatment outside the Strip butZionist regime repeatedly refused to allow him to travel.\r\n \r\nThe two deaths bring to 67 the number of Palestinian patients dying in the Strip over the past seven months due to Zionist-imposed siege. Hundreds others are waiting for permission to receive treatment outside the Strip and are threatened with the same fate.","content_html":" \r\n