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| Internationally renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert |
The Israeli regime has imposed a lifetime ban on internationally
renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from entering the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv
announced on Thursday that it had banned Gilbert, Norway’s doctor of peace for
Gaza, from entering the Israeli-besieged Palestinian enclave for security
reasons.
The
announcement was made after the Norwegian Embassy in Tel Aviv asked for an
explanation to why Gilbert had been refused entry to Gaza last month.
The renowned
doctor tried to return to Gaza in October to work at Shifa hospital, where he
treated thousands of the Palestinians injured in Israel’s 50-day war on the
blockaded coastal sliver earlier this year.
Norway’s
Secretary of State Bård Glad Pedersen has called on Tel Aviv to change its
decision, arguing “the humanitarian situation in Gaza is still difficult and
there is a need for all health workers.”
Gilbert said
he believes the lifetime ban is connected to his critical comments against the
Israeli regime.
In
September, Gilbert said in a summit on Gaza that Israeli forces intentionally
killed Palestinian children and youths during their recent military offensive
against the impoverished Palestinian territory.
The
Norwegian doctor has also insisted that Tel Aviv persisted in pounding the
densely-populated Gaza Strip with impunity, slaughtering innocent Palestinians.
According to
Gilbert, the regime is implementing an apartheid system in the occupied
Palestinian lands.
Almost 2,140
Gazans, mostly civilians, including women, children and the elderly, were
killed and more than 11,000 others wounded in 50 days of the Israeli onslaught
that began in early July.
Gilbert is a
member of a Norwegian triage medical team present in the Gaza Strip. His team
has exposed that Israel has used depleted uranium and unconventional weapons in
its recent wars on the area.
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