Finland refuses EU request to accept critically ill patients from Gaza

https://yle.fi/a/74-20112754

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  1. based Finland. They should go to other muslim countries in their vicinity, not to some distant country with no links to them.

  2. I find it strange how people are always up to help Palestinians when it involves bashing Israel, but when it is to actually help Palestinians, crickets.

  3. Maybe one of the many death to the Jews chanting countries in the region can help out the Gazan’s.

  4. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://yle.fi/a/74-20112754) reduced by 77%. (I’m a bot)
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    > Finland does not plan to accept any patients from Gaza, despite a request from the European Commission for member states to offer medical help to people severely wounded in the war-torn region.

    > Of the 27 member states, so far just seven EU countries have announced that they will accept patients from Gaza – Spain, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania and Slovakia.

    > The Swedish government's policy has attracted widespread criticism, with Dagens Nyheter also reporting that the Karolinska University Hospital and the healthcare company Aleris have both offered to accept patients from Gaza.

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  5. Why would they want to send their critically ill patients to a geographically distanced country instead of their neighbors? Just curious.

  6. Funny / weird thing is that Israel usually treats them. Sinwar’s sister had her baby a few months back in Israeli hospital.

  7. Agressive-toothbrush on

    Finland has a population of 5.5 million and unlike Norway, it does not have vast oil & gas fields.

    There are 16 other countries in the EU which have a larger population and bigger economy than Finland.

  8. brainsizeofplanet on

    Why not ask their supporting BRICS countries to take care of them? – those are their lies supporting Palestine

  9. It happens Palestinians have ludicrously wealthy neighbors that proclaim to be extremely sympathetic to their cause. No need to send them so far.

  10. Shitty situation but no country should be burdened, why are the neighboring arab countries not taking them in? Hmmm

  11. >However, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health said a decision has been made not to take in any patients from Gaza because “Finland does not have the necessary resources to respond to the patient evacuation requests”.

    >The ministry added that, with limited resources, “Finland has decided to prioritise assistance to Ukraine with regard to patient evacuations.”

  12. Send them to Qatar? Why Europe? Why do we have to bend our knees to these people, that not even their neighbors want.

  13. does it really make sense to transport critically ill patients 3’500km for treatment?
    seems like an interesting choice.
    would take a while in an ambulance

  14. Iran should take them.

    They are the cause for Mideast violence today.

    Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, they are behind them all.

  15. Send them to a Muslim country. They’re the ones supporting Hamas and goading the Palestinians into supporting terrorism.

  16. milktanksadmirer on

    Aren’t Egypt, Iran, Turkey etc closer to Gaza ?

    Why cross seas and send the patients to Finland ?

    Good decision by Finland

  17. Just send them to nearby neighbourhood countries instead. Much nearer and they too have great medicare.

  18. bruh have Iran or the saudis take them. I’m sure their facilities are great. Why would they want white doctors taking care of them? hmmmm

  19. Why would we (EU) accept terrorists, people supporting hamas (that is essentially palestinian gov) going to their enemies allies (israel).

    It would be equivalent to China taking in Ukrainian refugees. It doesnt make sense in any way.

  20. I can’t imagine why Finland would prioritize treating Ukrainians, injured fighting Russia’s attempt to annex a nearby country.

    It’s not like Finland and Russia have history or anything.

  21. NATO_CAPITALIST on

    So the oil rich in billions surrounding ME countries are only strong on supporting Palestinians verbally and for internal populist reason and not via tangible real world actions?

  22. Not being obnoxious here but that’s Finland’s right to refuse.

    Surely they’d be better placed moving them to a neighboring nations instead of them having to travel vast distances to a country, where frankly, they’d be completely lost with the language for a start.