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One recent story concerns the many cancer patients who need urgent medical care outside Gaza but have been denied permission to leave by the Israeli authorities.
One patient , Ahmed El Baghdadi, said that the Israel Security Service told him he could have that permission on condition that he became an informer for Israel.
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