{"id":8064,"date":"2023-11-21T05:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ailing-hamas-hostages-desperately-need-care-doctors-say\/21\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T05:34:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T10:34:01","slug":"ailing-hamas-hostages-desperately-need-care-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ailing-hamas-hostages-desperately-need-care-doctors-say\/21\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ailing Hamas Hostages Desperately Need Care, Doctors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn some cases, children were taken moments after watching their parents being brutally murdered,\u201d said Dr. Zion Hagai, chairman of the Israel Medical Association. \u201cThey are not only forced to live with this trauma but to experience it in a strange, dark and scary place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Speakers highlighted the cases of several particularly vulnerable hostages, among them Raz Ben Ami, 57, from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/10\/14\/world\/israel-news-hamas-war-gaza\/a-son-of-a-kibbutz-attacked-by-hamas-returns-as-witness-to-devastation-and-loss?smid=url-share\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Be\u2019eri kibbutz<\/a>, who was being treated for neurosarcoidosis, a serious and rare disease that affects the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves, causing hearing and vision loss, confusion, agitation and other effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Arnon Elizur spoke of a young<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>patient, Yagil Yaakov, who has a life-threatening peanut allergy and could die in minutes if he were exposed to even trace amounts of peanut powder. Islamic Jihad, another militant group in the Gaza Strip, recently published a video of the boy, looking pale and thin, with dark shadows under his eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI can\u2019t imagine what is going through his mind when he is served food,\u201d Dr. Elizur said. \u201cCan he be certain it doesn\u2019t contain trace amounts of peanuts? Every meal for him is like playing Russian roulette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The son of another<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>hostage, Haim Peri, said that his father<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>had advanced heart disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe is an artist, a peace activist and a man who always fought for human rights,\u201d said the son, Noam Peri. \u201cHe is a brave man, but at age 80, he is not a healthy man, and requires daily medications. He will not survive captivity for long.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/21\/world\/middleeast\/hamas-hostages-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;In some cases, children were taken moments after watching their parents being brutally murdered,&rdquo; said Dr. Zion Hagai, chairman of the Israel<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ailing-hamas-hostages-desperately-need-care-doctors-say\/21\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}