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If you have any doubts that Gaza is the world's largest jail and the Israelis its jailers, read this:

Since June 2007, when Hamas forcibly seized power in Gaza, Israel has made it increasingly difficult for medical supplies to get into Gaza and for any of Gaza’s 1.4 million residents to get out, even when they urgently need medical treatment.

The Israelis claim they are simply trying to protect themselves against dangerous elements — like the 16-year-old girl with a congenitive heart defect, or the 72-year-old man in need of open heart surgery.

The 72-year-old died after his permit was denied. But maybe he could have saved himself if only he had been willing to sell someone out:

[I]intelligence officers at Erez crossing, the only passenger crossing in and out of Gaza, tell medical patients that they can leave only if they provide information to Israeli intelligence.

In the end, it didn't matter to the Israelis whether the man sold out someone or not. Either way, there was one less Palestinian for them to worry about.