Posted on 07/11/2007 2:33:47 PM PDT by Alouette
Fatah member loses both legs after his request to receive medical treatment in Israel rejected due to security concerns. ‘I fail to understand how a man who is missing one or two legs can jeopardize the country’s security,’ Physicians for Human Rights member says
Meital Yasur Beit-Or Published: 07.11.07, 23:31 / Israel News
A 25-year-old Fatah member who was injured during the recent clashes with Hamas in Gaza was denied entry to Israel for medical treatment and lost both of his legs as a result.
According to the Sin Bet and the IDF District Coordination Office’s (DCO) position on the matter, which was submitted to the High Court of Justice, the Palestinian was deemed a security threat.
Ma’ala Uda was prohibited from entering the country despite the opinion of Prof Professor Raphael Walden, Deputy Director of the General Hospital at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. At the time Walden wrote that Uda required immediate medical attention “or else his legs may have to be amputated”.
The DCO rejected the request and one of the Palestinian’s legs was in fact severed. During a hearing on the matter it was made know that his other leg was also in danger, but the High Court adopted the Shin Bet’s standpoint that Uda was a security threat to Israel. Two days later the Palestinian’s other leg was amputated in Gaza.
“With all due respect to the Shin Bet’s work and concern for Israel’s security, I fail to understand how a man who is missing one or two legs can jeopardize the country’s security; it’s simply ridiculous,” Ran Yaron of the Physicians for Human Rights organization said.
“We told the court we would be willing to contract a security firm to escort patients from Gaza to the Allenby crossing so that they may receive treatment in Jordan, but the Shin Bet rejected this suggestion as well.”
'Injured Gazans linked to terror groups'
Another Palestinian, who was at risk of losing his eyesight, was also denied entry to Israel on similar grounds.
The Physicians for Human Rights group claimed Wednesday that in recent weeks the High Court has been discriminating between Palestinians whose lives were in danger and those who had sustained less severe injuries.
The group said there were numerous cases in which Palestinians were denied entry to Israel due to security concerns.
In one such case, a 19-year-old Palestinian suffering from a brain tumor died after the approval of his request for an entry permit was delayed.
The Shin Bet said in response that the Palestinian petitioners were linked to terror groups.
Explosives can be packed into a prosthetic leg.
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Maybe Moore should have airlifted him to Cuba.
The insanity of this is preposterous.
Hello, FATAH member?
Why grant a murderous swine entry when you KNOW he’s up to no good?
That he lost his legs is too darn bad, downside is that now he’ll whine about how mistreated he was.
(Probably upset that he didn’t get his 72 virgins.)
Then the story it implies he is already "missing one or two legs"
I'm confused!
They’ve done it before, haven’t they? Put explosives under corpses to blow up the care workers that come to them.
They’ve made a culture of suicide and homicide bombing. These are the fruits.
My sympathy for Palestinians ran out long ago.
No tears here.
‘I fail to understand how a man who is missing one or two legs can jeopardize the country’s security,’ Physicians for Human Rights member says “
Spare me.
The Palestinians will cease to be a threat when they love their legs more than they hate Israel.
>>>The title says his legs were severed AFTER he was denied enterance.
>>>Then the story it implies he is already “missing one or two legs”
>>I’m confused!
He’s one of those four-legged Palestinians you get after a few thousand years of inbreeding.
I'm sure he would have said the same thing about the young, pregnant Palestinian mother who wanted to get into Israel.
After reading his complaint, I have concluded that he doesn’t have a leg to stand on it.
Oh my goodness! Is this the kind of attitude we as Americans have for someone simply because of what group he is a part of? Is he automatically evil because he is a Palestinian? Is there no Christian compassion or sense of mercy here? Unbelievable. Everyone has bought the idea that Israel can do no wrong, no matter what. And we wonder why these people hate us. No one here knows anything about this man. On what evidence do you condemn him?
Squeals, grunts, and hunts for truffles before exploding.
Hello, FATAH member?
Ask the “blind sheik”.
” On what evidence do you condemn him?”
The article says that his legs were aputated AFTER he was denied entry.
Then it goes on to imply that he was already missing ‘one or two’ legs.
Besides that, he is a FATAH member, a terrorist.
And then some half wit, from a group of morons purporting to be Physicians for Human Rights, whines because the Israelis don’t get to it chop-chop and patch him up before he dies, so he won’t be there for the final massacre of the last Israeli.
My heart bleeds.
Aw Gee, so sorry. Maybe it’s the company he keeps.
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