Israel bars shot Palestinian from treatment in Jerusalem

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Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel has barred a Palestinian photographer allegedly shot in the eye by an Israeli soldier from entering east Jerusalem for specialist treatment, he told AFP on Wednesday

Nidal Shtayyeh, who works for Chinese news agency Xinhua, was wounded while covering a small demonstration at Huwarra checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on May 16.

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Shtayyeh was rushed to Rafidiya hospital in Nablus for initial treatment but was prescribed specialist help at St John's eye hospital in annexed east Jerusalem.

As a Palestinian living in the West Bank, Shtayyeh had to apply for an Israeli permit to enter Jerusalem.

But Israeli authorities turned down his request.

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-bars-shot-palestinian-treatment-180527556.html

Yay, World's Most Moral Army (TM)!

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1. "Annexed East Jerusalem" indeed.

What a clever and uninformative way of referring to land theft.

This was also in the article:
"A spokesman for the Shin Bet internal security agency did not have an immediate response.
Shtayyeh's lawyer, Itai Matt, told AFP that his client had been informed it was the Shin Bet preventing his entry, despite his having been granted such permission in the past.
According to Matt, Israeli security services "regularly bar entry to anyone wounded by the army".
"They even bar entry to wounded children seeking treatment in Jerusalem, because they are worried that anyone wounded will try and take revenge after their treatment," he said.


This is how the "only democracy in the Middle East treats the victims of its violence.

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2. According to some of Israel's apologists here, if we disagree with Israel's policy of

not allowing the people it's occupying to travel to seek medical care for wounds inflicted by Israel, we must be anti-semitic.

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3. Controlling the terms of the debate IS an effective tool.

By casting critics of the actions of the Israeli government as anti-Semites, the apologists attempt to put the critics on the defensive. But it is not working any more. There are far too many of these incidents that clearly show the racist and violent nature of the Israeli apartheid state.