Israeli Hospital Fights for the Life of Hamas Leader’s Family

February 6, 2024

by: Ynetnews

Tuesday, 6 February 2024 | While the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, is still examining the proposal for a hostage deal formulated at the Paris summit, Israel’s News 13 reported that members of Haniyeh’s family are receiving life-saving medical treatment at Israel’s Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.

Several of Haniyeh’s sisters are Israeli citizens through marriage to Bedouins and live in Tel Sheva in the Negev. In recent days, one of Haniyeh’s nieces gave birth to a baby in Soroka Hospital. The baby was born prematurely and has since been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit. The medical staff at the hospital have been working to save his life.

For the members of the medical team, this is not an easy situation given the baby’s close relationship with Haniyeh, and the understanding that the leader of the terrorist organization is responsible for the massacre and holding the hostages. However, they understand that it is their duty to take care of him. Therefore, despite the difficulties, the staff are treating the case professionally.

Haniyeh’s relatives who do not live in Israel or hold Israeli citizenship have also received urgent medical treatment in Israeli hospitals in the past. In October 2014, shortly after the end of Operation Protective Edge, one of Haniyeh’s daughters, then in her 20s, received emergency medical treatment at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. After treatment, she returned to the Gaza Strip.

In November 2013, Amal, Haniyeh’s young granddaughter, was hospitalized in critical condition in Israel. She was evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva through the Erez Crossing due to a serious illness in her digestive tract. When the doctors realized that her condition was critical, she was returned to Gaza. She died shortly after.

After the doctors in the Gaza Strip had despaired of saving Amal, Abd Salam Haniyeh, her father and Haniyeh’s son, did not hide the medical treatment in Israel from the public in Gaza. He wrote on his Facebook page that Amal was being moved to Israel, adding: “I ask God to give her health.” Before her transfer to Israel, Ismail Haniyeh visited her, and a photo of him standing at her bedside was published in the media.

In 2012, Haniyeh’s sister, Suhila Abdel Salam, entered Israel together with her sick husband, who received urgent medical treatment at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. In March of that year, he suffered a serious heart attack, which could not be treated in the hospitals in Gaza. The couple submitted a request to cross into Israel in order to receive urgent medical treatment and the husband was taken in a Palestinian ambulance to the Erez Crossing, where he was transferred to an Israeli Magen David Adom vehicle.

He was taken to the hospital together with his wife, who accompanied him throughout the process. The couple stayed in the hospital for about a week, during which Haniyeh’s brother-in-law was hospitalized and treated to stabilize his condition. At the end of the hospitalization, the couple returned to the Gaza Strip.

Posted on February 6, 2024

Source: (This article originally was published by Ynetnews on February 6, 2024. Time-related language has been modified to reflect our republication today. See original article at this link.)

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