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Palestinian Patients Find Help in Israeli Hospital
(AP-US News) Fares Akram - Gaza teenagers Ahmed and Hadeel Hamdan spend 12 hours a day connected to dialysis machines that come from an Israeli hospital. Israel allows thousands of Gazans to travel each year to its hospitals, even though Israel considers the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to be a hostile entity, and has fought three wars since the Islamic militant group seized power in 2007. The Hamdan siblings have been regular guests at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa since July 2012. Rambam worked with Palestinian officials to get the equipment installed at the family's home and trained their mother how to operate the machines. She said the hospital makes sure that solutions and medical supplies are delivered to the family on a regular basis. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said granting access to Israeli hospitals was "fundamentally" a humanitarian matter. "This is an ongoing policy. That has been the policy for decades," he said. Israel even treated a daughter of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last year.