"Syed, who had been planning her third volunteer mission to Gaza with a U.S. medical aid group, was told by the organization after she landed in Jordan for the trip that the Israeli military had rejected her and had given no reason. She believes the reason is because of what she has described publicly after her previous missions. She has spoken including in testimony to a United Nations commission"
"With an unprecedented number of Gaza-based Palestinian journalists killed by Israel, which is barring almost all foreign reporters from the enclave, doctors and nurses have been among the last remaining international witnesses to the war's catastrophic toll on civilians. "It just seems like this is a targeting of certain people who are going to be exposing the truth of what's happening in Gaza, another way to prevent that," says Syed, referring to Israel's decision to stop her and other foreign doctors from working in Gaza."
An emergency medicine physician was denied entry to Gaza by the Israeli military after arriving in Jordan, with no official reason provided. The physician had intended to deliver infant formula and resuscitation devices and had previously testified about treating children shot in the head, rising child malnutrition, and patients dying from lack of supplies. The WHO calls Israel's denial of emergency medical staff arbitrary and says it is contributing to more deaths in Gaza. Israeli strikes have killed about 1,500 local medical staff and displaced many others. Aid groups submit applications through WHO, which coordinates with the Israeli government and verifies medical qualifications.
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