GAZA CITY: A granddaughter of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyah has returned to Gaza after being hospitalised in Israel in a critical condition, Palestinian sources said yesterday.
Medics in Gaza had on Monday reported that Amal Haniyah, aged one, was sent to Israel for treatment for a serious infection of the digestive tract which has affected her nervous system.
Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot reported that the infant was being treated in the Petah Tikva paediatric hospital near Tel Aviv but that doctors had decided it was impossible to save her.
The premier’s son Abdessalam Haniyah late on Monday wrote that Amal had returned to the Al Nasser paediatric hospital in Gaza, “still in a state of clinical death”.
A medic explained that due to the child’s critical condition she had been transferred back to the Gaza hospital, where she would receive the same medical care as in Israel.
Bahrain court upholds jail terms for 17 Shia activists
DUBAI: A Bahrain appeals court has upheld jail terms of up to 15 years for 17 Shias convicted over attacks on police in the unrest-hit country, a judicial source said yesterday.
The Manama court, which delivered the verdicts on Monday, also reduced by seven years sentences for three other defendants in the same case, the source said.
The group of Shias were tried on charges of attempting to murder police, carrying out arson attacks on their vehicles, causing public disturbance and possessing Molotov cocktails.
AFP
