Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to prevent about 150 sick and wounded Palestinian children from leaving the country to receive treatment in the United Arab Emirates, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (Kan 11) reported Sunday evening.

According to the report, Netanyahu decided to postpone the children's departure, which was supposed to take place tomorrow, Monday, via the Israeli army's Ramon Air Base in the Negev region, due to the killing of 12 children and the injury of others as a result of a shell falling on Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan.

The children were scheduled to leave the Strip and reach the Ramon base, and from there to the Emirates to receive treatment, after more than nine months of continuous war on the Strip and depriving them of their right to treatment, which caused the death or worsening of the situation of thousands of Gazans, who need urgent treatment.

Physicians for Human Rights had indicated that Israel had previously delayed or cancelled implementation of such commitments in previous experiments; while informed sources spoke of the possibility of a plane carrying 250 patients and wounded people taking off from the Strip to the Emirates during the current week.

The Director General of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Barash, confirmed that those in need of treatment are at least 100 times this number, noting that there are 25,000 referrals required to travel abroad, indicating that the number of patients and wounded who have left the Strip since the beginning of the war has reached only 5,000.

Physicians for Human Rights and other human rights organizations had filed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court last June, demanding that patients and wounded people whose lives are in danger and who are not involved in the war be allowed to leave the Strip in order to receive the necessary treatment.