News - Middle East: Authorities from the European Union (EU) are reportedly causing suffering to Palestinian cancer patients as part of a campaign to appease the Tel Aviv regime. 

According to a report published by the online Electronic Intifada publication, the 27-member bloc has withheld a large proportion of funding provided to help support Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation – nearly $230m – under the pretext that Palestinian school textbooks need to undergo revisions and changes.

According to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the suspension of aid since last year is badly affecting critical sectors and paralyzing services, including healthcare in East al-Quds, where hospitals provide life-saving treatments to Palestinians from across the occupied territories.

“These restrictions punish terminally ill patients who cannot get life-saving medicine and force children to go hungry when parents cannot afford to buy food. Palestinians are paying the cruelest price for political decisions made in Brussels,” Jan Egeland, the NRC’s secretary-general, said earlier this week.

The rights group highlighted that at least 500 cancer patients, diagnosed since last September, have been unable to access adequate, life-saving treatments at Augusta Victoria Hospital in occupied East al-Quds.