Israel increasingly bars foreign doctors who want to volunteer in Gaza

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Since mid-March, denial rates have risen by about 50%, it said, with 102 surgeons and other specialized medical staff denied entry into the Gaza Strip. Doctors who are denied entry to Gaza try to help in other waysWhen foreign doctors do get into Gaza, the volunteer missions are grueling and require personal sacrifice. Musleh says despite that, he has hundreds of doctors willing and able to go, if Israel would allow in more medical staff. But now, as Jane Arraf reports, Israel is increasingly rejecting foreign doctors applying to volunteer in Gaza – many of them Americans. ARRAF: Medical aid organizations say the rejections are part of a pattern by Israel.