Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has prevented about 150 sick and wounded Palestinian children from leaving Gaza for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to receive treatment.

According to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, Netanyahu prevented the children’s planned flight to the UAE via the Israeli army’s Ramon Air Base in the Naqab region on Monday afternoon, July 29.

It is claimed that the decision came “against the backdrop of the attack on Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday evening, July 27.”