June 15, 2014, Updated June 16, 2014

Operating room at Assuta hospital in Tel Aviv. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
According to the report, Umm Mazen checked into the private hospital on Thursday night. She had round the clock security guards posted outside her room.
Israeli doctors regularly treat Palestinian patients. Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh’s granddaughter was treated at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva this past November.
And earlier this month, his mother-in-law was granted entry from the Gaza Strip to receive cancer treatment at a Jerusalem hospital.
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