FILE PHOTO: British vascular surgeon John Wolfe, who was invited to Gaza by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), performs a surgery for a wounded Palestinian in the operating room in a hospital in Gaza City April 25, 2018. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S. charity building a tent hospital in the Gaza Strip is causing Palestinian unease by offering foreign medical volunteers the opportunity of weekend tourism in Israel, just across the volatile border.
The facility, to be operated by the U.S. evangelical Christian group FriendShips, had won rare joint support from Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas and their enemy, Israel, which maintains a blockade along its frontier with the enclave.
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