Sweden is one of the EU countries that takes a clear pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli line. But it turns out that when it comes to receiving wounded Gaza residents and treating them, it is too much for the Swedish government.
According to a report on a Palestinian website, the Swedish government refused the request of the European Council to agree to accept wounded people from Gaza in hospitals in the Nordic country.
This refusal is puzzling since hospitals in Sweden as well as medical service providers in Sweden claim that they are able to receive the wounded from Gaza. The Karolinska hospital that treated the wounded from Ukraine has already announced that it is ready to treat the wounded from Gaza.
However, the Swedish Minister of Health, Eko Ankberg Johansson, explained that this was an "excessively high cost". "This is too high a cost for a small number of patients. We use our money to help more people," she was quoted as saying.
