Locked Out of Gaza’s Permanent Lockdown

I recently interviewed a Palestinian family in Gaza about their struggle to obtain an Israeli-issued permit for their son to receive medical treatment for cancer abroad, since it is unavailable in Gaza. After describing the complicated process, the boy’s father said: “It’s a game... You might win or lose with your life.” Expand Abeer Almasri, Human Rights Watch’s Gaza-based research assistant, outside the Erez Crossing on July 5, 2018 on her second trip out of the Gaza Strip in her life and first time visiting Israel and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. © 2018 Private Over…

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