Israeli siege continues to kill infants

205 Gazans dead this year as direct result of Israeli siege 

...following the death Sunday of Hadeel Haddad, a 19-month-old baby girl who was recently denied a permit to leave Gaza for medical treatment.

According to a statement released on Sunday by the de facto government in Gaza's ministry of health, 205 individuals have died as a direct result of the Israeli siege. 

The statistic, says the statement, includes 45 children and takes into account the number of people whose lives would not have been taken if the Israeli siege in Gaza were not in place. The siege, according to the statistic, is counted as the last year of tightened security, not the last three years of restricted access. The ministry statement was issued following the death Sunday of Hadeel Haddad, a 19-month-old baby girl who was recently denied a permit to leave Gaza for medical treatment. According to the de facto ministry, more than 1500 patients in the Gaza Strip urgently need medical care abroad, and one third of those patients are children.

Full report at Maan News 13 July, 2008