Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in
the Territories, Major General Yoav Mordechai, on Monday accused Hamas
of a double standard for allowing the daughter of the group's leader Ismail
Haniyeh to receive medical treatment in Israel.
"When
there is a personal interest, Hamas has no problem in allowing patients to come
into Israel," Mordechai said during an interview with the Palestinian news
agency Ma'an.
Mordecai criticized Hamas conduct during
Operation Protective Edge, claiming that the group's leaders prevented injured
Gazans from reaching the field hospital set up by Israel on the Gaza border.
The hospitalized girl is one of Haniyeh's
13 children. She suffered complications from routine treatment, was transferred
to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv via the Erez Crossing, and sent back to her
home last week.
When Israel receives a request for
treatment, it is not interested in the relatives of the patient, whether it's
Haniyeh or some other people," said Mordecai.
"Haniyeh's daughter is one of more
than the one thousand patients from the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian
Authority areas, both adults and children, that we treat each year," said
Ichilov Hospital in response.
A Palestinian source told the Asharq
al-Awsat newspaper that the treatment and transfer of the patient had been
coordinated with the Palestinian Authority, and that relatives of other
Palestinian officials had also been treated in Israel in the past.
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