The sister of senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzuk was admitted for treatment in an Israeli hospital two weeks ago, reports revealed Monday. The 60-year-old woman is suffering from cancer and is in serious condition. Israel has yet to respond to the reports.

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The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories issues entry permits every week, allowing the passage of hundreds of medical and humanitarian cases from the West Bank and from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook (Photo: Reuters)

This is not the first time family members of senior figures in terrorist organizations were given a permit to enter Israel for medical treatment. Last month, it was reported that the daughter of the leader of Hamas in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh received emergency medical treatment in Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, after she suffered complications from a routine procedure.

The daughter, a young woman in her 20s, was hospitalized for a period of a week.

Last November, Israeli media reported that one of Haniyeh's granddaughter was treated in an Israeli hospital, while his mother-in-law sought treatment in a Jerusalem hospital in June.

In 2012, Haniyeh's sister entered Israel along with her husband, who received urgent treatment at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.

Ismail Haniyeh's relatives had been hospitalized in Israel in the past (Photo: AP)

In March of that year, the husband of Suhila Abd el-Salam Ahmed Haniyeh suffered a serious cardiac episode which could not be treated at any hospital in Gaza. After the couple filed an urgent entry request with Israeli authorities, a Palestinian ambulance transported the husband to the Erez Crossing, where he was moved to a Magen David Adom vehicle and taken to the hospital in Petah Tikva along with his wife.

The husband was hospitalized in Israel for about a week, during which his condition was stabilized. Following the treatment, the couple returned to Gaza.

Five months ago, several days after the abduction and killing of three Israeli yeshiva students, Ynet revealed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' wife had surgery at a private hospital in the heart of Israel.

Amina Abbas, mother to the Palestinian leader's three children, underwent a procedure on her leg. She was released after a hospital stay handled with extreme discretion by the staff at the private Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv.