‘A death sentence for my son’: Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza, patients and doctors say

By Abeer Salman and Zeena Saifi, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Yamen Al-Najjar recalls his past life – the days when he went to school and laughed regularly. Today, the 16-year-old lives with his mother in a cramped 6-square-meter room, just large enough to hold a hospital bed he seldom leaves. “Life is hard. I am