The ’freedom gate’: Between #Gaza and #Egypt's hospitals
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A Palestinian man waits with his stuff near the gate of the Rafah border crossing on February 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Said Khatib) A Palestinian man waits with his stuff near the gate of the Rafah border crossing on February 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Said Khatib)
Twenty-year-old Essam Hasna is a cancer patient from the Gaza Strip who was supposed to get his treatment four months ago. In February, he went to the #Rafah_crossing - the main gateway for Gaza patients to Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the outside world - and was told by Egyptian border control that he could not cross over to Egypt because his brother, Mohammed, who was accompanying Essam on the journey, had been blacklisted by Egyptian authorities. (...)
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