Cancer patients stopped from leaving Gaza for treatment - BBC News

The patients were not let through the Rafah crossing despite being named on authorised departure lists.

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Siham has been turned away at the border multiple times, despite her name being on an evacuation list

"My medicine is finished. I'm so tired. I can hardly see in front of me. My chemotherapy ran out a long time ago," said Siham.

The 62-year-old has leukaemia. Before the war broke out she was being treated at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in north Gaza - the only cancer hospital in the Strip.

She's one of approximately 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza - according to figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry - who have been unable to get treatment or medicines since the hospital shut down in the first week of November due to fuel shortages.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68552314

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