Red Cross Asked to Evacuate Sick Deportees
Palestinians expelled by Israel appealed to the Red Cross on Friday to evacuate sick deportees from their camp in a south Lebanon no-man’s-land.
“We urge and welcome the International Committee of the Red Cross to take sick deportees to hospitals as there are many sick exiles who need hospitalization,” Abdul Aziz Rantisi, the leader of the 396 exiles, told reporters.
Thursday, three Jordanian doctors visited the deportees, in their seventh month in exile.
Dr. Mustapha Salem, president of the Jordanian Orthopedic Assn., said 15 of the 50 men examined were suffering from disorders in their joints caused by what they said was torture in Israeli jails.
He said the 15 needed urgent surgery and eight other exiles required laboratory and X-ray tests.
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