RELATED:Yishai: 'I wouldn't leave one illegal family in Israel'Court delays deportation of 12 foreign workers' childrenSa'ar to Netanyahu: Let children of foreign workers stayHer mother, grandmother, and one of her brothers were killed in the incident, and she was transferred to Israel for medical treatment.Iman, who was left paralyzed from the injury and remains on a respirator, can not return to Gaza because there is no adequate medical equipment there needed for her condition, said Army Radio.The IDF looked into the possibility of transferring the girl to Ramallah, but the Palestinian Authority refused to cooperate.The Defense Ministry then decided to rent an apartment in Abu Ghosh for her and her family, and the interior minister was asked to solve the legal status of the family members in the country.Yishai agreed to allow them temporary residency, saying it was a special humanitarian case, according to Army Radio.Maria will now be able to have the Health Ministry fund her medical devices, and she will also be eligible for a health basket, kupat holim, a license to hire a foreign worker to look after her 24 hours a day, and pension funds.
Yishai grants temporary residency status to Gaza family
Palestinian girl Maria Iman was paralyzed in 2006 when IAF missile accidentally hit car, couldn't go home for lack of adequate medical care.
RELATED:Yishai: 'I wouldn't leave one illegal family in Israel'Court delays deportation of 12 foreign workers' childrenSa'ar to Netanyahu: Let children of foreign workers stayHer mother, grandmother, and one of her brothers were killed in the incident, and she was transferred to Israel for medical treatment.Iman, who was left paralyzed from the injury and remains on a respirator, can not return to Gaza because there is no adequate medical equipment there needed for her condition, said Army Radio.The IDF looked into the possibility of transferring the girl to Ramallah, but the Palestinian Authority refused to cooperate.The Defense Ministry then decided to rent an apartment in Abu Ghosh for her and her family, and the interior minister was asked to solve the legal status of the family members in the country.Yishai agreed to allow them temporary residency, saying it was a special humanitarian case, according to Army Radio.Maria will now be able to have the Health Ministry fund her medical devices, and she will also be eligible for a health basket, kupat holim, a license to hire a foreign worker to look after her 24 hours a day, and pension funds.