P.A. Denies Border Crossing to Injured Gazans - Forward.com

Wounded residents of Gaza have been refused urgent medical treatment because the Palestinian Authority will not transfer them to Israeli hospitals, the Forward has learned.

When doctors at Shifa Hospital in Gaza found out that requests to move five seriously ill patients to Israel had been refused, they presumed that Israeli officials were behind the decision.

It transpired that the Israeli army, which runs the Erez crossing to Israel from Gaza, was letting through wounded people and others in need of medical treatment. The reason that some patients were not allowed transfer to Israel was a decision of the P.A. that all wounded people must be treated in Egypt.