Palestinian leaders oppose a new hospital to help Gazans

Last week:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved the measurement phase ahead of the construction of a huge 40-dunam international field hospital with 16 different departments near the Erez crossing, to be managed by an international medical team.

The Yediot Aharonot newspaper reports that the hospital will be funded by a private American organization and is meant to ensure a significant improvement and a response that is not currently available in the Gaza Strip to Palestinian Arab patients.

If Israel agrees to build a hospital to help Palestinians, you know what will happen next.

Official PA news agency Wafa writes:

The main objective of this hospital is to establish a separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, particularly in the medical field. The occupation seeks to control the transfer of patients to the West Bank. Instead, the hospital will contribute to full separation between the West Bank The Gaza Strip and the prevention of the establishment of a Palestinian state.

In this context, Prime Minister Mohammad Ashtiyyeh said in a press statement: "No one coordinated with us about the hospital, which is intended to be funded by a private American institution, and with Israeli approval on the northern border of the Gaza Strip. We do not know what this institution is."

Health Minister Mei al-Kila said that the field hospital to be built on the northern border of the Gaza Strip by the American and Israeli sides is part of the "deal of the century" in order to completely separate the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under humanitarian pretext.

She added: "We welcome any health services to support our people in the Gaza Strip, but not at the expense of our national values, knowing that the government provides medical and health services for the people of the sector as they are in the West Bank."

"The essence of the matter is that any international projects in the Gaza Strip must be coordinated with the legitimate Palestinian government, and any projects away from the government and from the PNA means stabilizing dealing with Gaza as an entity outside the Palestinian context," said Mahmoud al-Zaq, a member of the political bureau of the Popular Struggle Front. "Only one Palestinian government must be dealt with and anyone who does not deal with this government means that it is launching the idea of ​​a political entity in the Gaza Strip. "

Al-Zaq added that "the idea in essence is suspicious and we can not be convinced that America intends to do good for the Palestinian people. Rather, it is devising a political project at the expense of the humanitarian issue in order to end the political right of our people. "

He said that "the establishment of this hospital is not humanitarian, but to deepen the division. It is a malicious conspiracy project that has nothing to do with the Palestinian people, and any movement towards Gaza under humanitarian pretext without passage through the Palestinian Authority is a threat to the Palestinian cause."

Hamas went on to slam the PA for being against the hospital.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that "the attempts of the government of Ashtiyyeh to disrupt the construction of an international hospital in the northern Gaza Strip [notice how Hamas claims Israeli territory as its own - EoZ] to resolve the worsening health crisis caused by the Israeli occupation, and caused by the retaliatory actions by Abbas and his government against our people in the sector, comes in the framework of their ongoing attempts to tighten restrictions on our people in Gaza and exacerbate their crises and hit the elements and factors of their steadfastness."

The takeaway quote comes from the health minister Mei al-Kila: "We welcome any health services to support our people in the Gaza Strip, but not at the expense of our national values." In other words, Palestinian political power is far more important than human lives.

Which has been the position of the Palestinian Authority throughout the years up to the Bahrain economic workshop.

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