Israeli Citizens Can't Enter Gaza Strip

It's true that a medical delegation visited the Gaza Strip, but they are not Israeli doctors.

Read the article. The 12 doctors are Palestinians from Israel who belong to a human rights organisation. They are not Zionists.

Gaza is Israel's concentration camp of 2m people living in appalling conditions after more than a decade of blockade. https://t.co/1tueHlIWlR

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Here are some facts about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Misbar's investigative team would like to make clear: 

1) Palestinian Exodus:
The doctors that entered the Gaza Strip are not Israeli, they are Palestinians living under the Israeli government. In 1948, Israel granted citizenship to the Arab natives who survived the Nakba—the Palestinian exodus following the Israeli Declaration of Independence—and remained within its newly established borders. Suddenly isolated from the rest of the Arab world, the Palestinian community inside Israel was subject to military rule until 1966.

2) Israeli citizens are not allowed to enter the Gaza Strip:
 Israel does not allow Jewish citizens of Israel, other than security forces, to enter Gaza on the grounds that their security would be at risk. Israeli citizens are not allowed to enter area A (fully controlled by the Palestinian Authority), and it is not recommended for them to enter area B.


3) PHRI: 
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) was founded in 1988 at the start of the Intifada by Dr. Ruchama Marton and Israeli and Palestinian physicians, motivated by the conviction that “every person has the right to health in its widest possible sense, as defined by the principles of human rights, social justice, and medical ethics”.

For the first time in 10 months, a PHRI medical delegation entered #Gaza today to perform surgeries, examinations and mental health training, and deliver medical equipment and medications worth tens of thousands USD. Pictured: The delegation in Gaza after passing Erez checkpoint pic.twitter.com/uRjQ4LT54S

— PHRI (@PHRIsrael) December 3, 2020

PHRI is an organization of Israeli and Palestinian physicians that stands at the forefront of the struggle for human rights – particularly the right to health – in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.


4) Israel's 14 years blockade on Gaza:
The medical situation in Gaza is one of the most heartbreaking aspects of Israel's siege. According to a UN report in 2018, Gaza was already at "breaking point" as a result of Israel's denial of essential medical equipment to Palestinians in the territory. UN experts called for a large-scale international response to the overwhelming healthcare need of people living in Gaza.

We found the circulating news misleading.