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As a result of Israel's post-January 2006 embargo, its siege since June 2007, Cast Lead, regular incursions, and its longstanding collective punishment policy, Gaza's healthcare system is "at an all time low." Many of the Strip's sick and injured lack proper care, or enough, in violation of medical ethics and international law explicitly prohibiting these practices.
"As an occupying power, (Israel bears full) responsibility for the health of Gaza's residents," including to treatment outside the Strip, unconditionally without constraints, authorities denying it as collective punishment - prohibited under international law, what, throughout its history, Israel disdainfully spurned.
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