31 December 2008
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8710111941

TEHRAN (FNA)- Several Gazans wounded in Israel's devastating five-day-old
onslaught on the Palestinian territory have been transferred to Iran for
treatment, Health Minister Kamran Bagheri Lankarani said.

"A small number of the injured have been transferred to Iran for treatment,"
Lankarani told the state broadcaster.

He did not specify how many had arrived in Iran but complained that the
Egyptian government had not agreed to Iran's offer to provide more extensive
treatment for wounded Gazans in Iranian hospitals.

He added that the Iranian Red Crescent and medical association were also
ready to send volunteers to Gaza.

At least 390 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's aerial pounding of
the territory, according to medics. A further 1,900 people have been wounded
but only a tiny number of those have been evacuated across the border to
Egypt.