No Wonder Palestinians Would Rather Be Treated In Israel!

This of course is nothing new for Israel to be accepting Palestinian Arabs as patients::

Twelve Palestinians have been evacuated to Israel for medical treatment since Operation "Cast Lead" began last Saturday in the Gaza Strip, as the hospitals in Gaza strain to accommodate the hundreds of wounded. For one Gaza boy, being treated in an Israeli hospital should increase his chances of making a full recovery.

After all, we all know that Israel has better facilities.

Still, if you follow the news, there do seem to be other reasons as well for preferring the hospitals in Israel. For instance, these days it seems that the hospitals in Gaza are getting awfully crowded--and not necessarily by patients:

Hamas terrorists are using civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip - including hospitals, mosques and areas next to offices of international aid groups - to conduct terrorist activity and fire rockets at Israel, Col. Moshe Levi, commander of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), said Thursday.

After all, what Palestinian patient is going to want to have surgery while lying down next to a Qassam?

But in addition, there is another reason why Palestinians may be reluctant to be treated in Gazan hospitals. Apparently if you are being treated there, you cannot even be sure that the doctor or nurse who is taking care of you actually has a license to practice:

The [Israeli] defense officials said it was likely that a number of senior Hamas operatives and terror chiefs were hiding and conducting their operations from within Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

"Hamas operatives are in the hospital and have disguised themselves as nurses and doctors," one official said. [emphasis added]

Come to think of it--considering the terrorist penchant for getting dressed up as women in order to escape martyrdom capture, that nurse with the hairy knuckles might just be a man.

Maybe these kinds of considerations are what the mother of the Gazan boy referred to above meant:

"Now I know he is in good hands, that they will take care of him with devotion," Sari's father Mana said Wednesday from the Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv, where he is staying with his son until he recovers from his injuries.

Sari should have a Refuah Shelaimah (complete recovery).

Technorati Tag: Israel and Gaza and Hamas and Operation Cast Lead.