Israel’s top court temporarily pauses decision to deport 20 cancer patients to Gaza
The High Court of Justice in Israel has ordered the government to temporarily halt its plan to send some 20 cancer patients hospitalised in Israel back to the besieged Gaza Strip along with their families.
The Jaffa-based Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said its appeal to stop the deportation – which will include children battling cancer and recovering from bone marrow transplants – has been granted until its petition against the move can be heard by the court.
“Unless the Israeli public opens its eyes to what is being done in its name and insists on upholding clear boundaries, this moral stain will not fade away,” PHRI Director Guy Shalev told the Israeli news website Ynet.
The move is being considered, and could still go through, as the healthcare system in Gaza has collapsed as a result of non-stop Israeli attacks, and as the patients will have little hope of receiving suitable treatment.
Following a day of concerted efforts, we have succeeded - for now - in preventing the deportation of 20 Palestinian patients and their accompanying relatives back to Gaza, including children battling cancer and recovering from bone marrow transplants.
— Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) (@PHRIsrael) March 21, 2024
Evidence of war crimes keeps mounting up
Israeli drone targets people in Khan Younis
Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage from February, captured by an Israeli drone, showing the unmanned aerial vehicle pursuing four Palestinians in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The individuals can be seen walking in open ground when the drone launches multiple missiles at them.
The footage was deemed too graphic to include on this live page.
Footage of Israeli drone killing four Palestinians ‘heinous’: Gaza media office
The Gaza media office has commented on the exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera, showing an Israeli drone killing Palestinians in Khan Younis. Here are the office’s translated comments:
- “We express our strong condemnation of this crime … during which the occupation army bombed four young civilians with an aircraft … and turned them into scattered pieces.”
- “We hold the American administration, the international community, and the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the continuation of these crimes against Palestinian civilians for the sixth month in a row.”
- “We call on all countries of the world to condemn the crime of genocide committed by the occupation with all brutality and sadism, and its crimes against humanity in violation of international law.”
