Hamas Leader's Daughter Treated İn Israel: Ministry

The daughter of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has received emergency treatment at an Israeli hospital after suffering complications from a routine procedure, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has said.



The 20-year-old, who the ministry did not name, left Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital following one week of treatment.



The ministry, on its Facebook page, said the young women had entered Israel from Gaza through the Erez border crossing, but refrained from giving dates for her entry or departure.



No immediate comment on the report could be obtained from either Hamas or Haniyeh's office.



Last year, Haniyeh's granddaughter, Amal, was treated at an Israeli hospital. However, she eventually returned to the Gaza Strip from Israel in a state of clinical death.



The one-year-old had been taken to Israel's Schneider Children's Medical Center to be treated for a serious digestive infection that had damaged her brain.



While Hamas rejects security cooperation with Israel, it adopts a softer stance on indirect coordination on health cases, the handover of dead bodies, and visits to Gazan prisoners languishing in Israeli jails.



Gazans in need of urgent medical attention are allowed into Israel for treatment, since the coastal strip's only gateway to the outside world – the Rafah border crossing linking it to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula – remains subject to lengthy closures by the Egyptian authorities.



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