Cindy explained, "How bulldozers are funded and sold is a complex area (go to Department of Defense website - http://www.defenselink.mil/ - and goggle foreign military aid) – all funded by the US government, rather than Israel approaching CAT and there being an exchange between the two…back to the political process-the court was very clear that this is a “political question” and renewed the opening to ask for an investigation from Congress. The State Department, 9th circuit decision affirmed that all of the sales are under the Foreign Military Financing program -sold specifically as weapons to Israel and subject to the laws and restrictions of the Arms Export Control Act – weapons can only be used for internal security or in self-defense, cannot be used against civilians…I…add that the US is on record in the Rachel case as saying that the Israeli government or military did not conduct an appropriately thorough or transparent investigation into her murder…where is the accountability?"
The viewers of Israeli TV news on September 25, 2007 may have wondered the same thing, for it was reported that "Critically ill people are waiting here to go to Israel, to receive vital medical treatment they can't get in Gaza. Treatments in Israel cost money and the payment is being transferred by the Palestinian Ministry of Health to Israeli hospitals. Since Israel declared the Gaza strip last week as "hostile entity", the patients are also being treated accordingly, subject to a torturing process."
Nearby a father held his small son in his arms.
F: He has a fraction in the artery
R: Does he have heart problems?
F: Yes. We've been waiting here at the checkpoint from 7 o'clock in the morning. Unfortunately, from 10 o'clock, 11, 12, one o'clock till now, no one can get through the checkpoint.
Reporter: Some patient, who finally reached the checkpoint hoping to get to the hospital, stayed in the ambulances the whole day as they weren't allowed to pass through, finally they went back to Gaza the same way they came…
The Reporter spoke with Abullah Abu-Shaa'ban, a child and cancer patient:
AA: I should have received my chemotherapy treatment last Wednesday, and it's been delayed for a week now.
R: You were supposed to get your chemotherapy treatment last Wednesday?
AA: Yes.
R: Why didn't you go there last Wednesday?
AA: I couldn't go as there was a closure like today.
"All the Palestinian patients living in the Gaza Strip, are actually waiting for their death certificate, it means that they are dying a slow death."- Hussain Moa'awia , Palestinian official in charge of coordinating the Gazan referrals crossing into Israel. http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/3850/1173794
"Everyday I must figure out what is the thing for me to do today to seek justice and accountability."- Cindy Corrie
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