Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly denied plans allowing around 150 sick Palestinians children from Gaza to seek medical treatment overseas, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
The decision comes after a deadly strike hitting the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed at least 12 children between the ages of 10 and 16 in the town of Majdal Shams on Saturday.
The Israeli broadcaster Kan said on Sunday that “a group of sick children were supposed to leave from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates via Israel on Monday, but after the Majdal Shams incident, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered their departure to be postponed”.
The sick Palestinian children were supposed to depart via the Ramon airbase in the Naqab (Negev) desert to the Gulf country, with whom Israel normalised diplomatic relations amid the controversial Abraham Accords in 2020. ….more
