Ranem Abu Izneid is still waiting for answers, five months after being injured in the West Bank

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Legally, Israel would be the responsible party to compensate Abu Izneid if found responsible.

But it is unlikely that his lawyers at the Australian International Justice Center claim that Israel pays their client, a Palestinian-Australian double citizen and the Australian government should intensify in his place. The executive director of the acting of the Center, Lara Khider, said to doubt that the investigations were taken seriously due to the lack of details on her progress.

“Now there must be … serious doubts that this investigation is taking place and if it is authentic,” said Khider.

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy said that the question was taken seriously in Israel.

A spokesman for DFAT said that the government continued to look for updates from Israel to the accident and had clarified that he expected to conduct a “complete, in -depth and transparent investigation”. Foreign Minister repeatedly raised this expectation directly with Israeli officials, more recently on March 26.

Abu Izneid lawyers claim that it could be compensated through an ad hoc scheme similar to what the government provides for Australians injured in terrorist attacks abroad.

Dfat told Abu Izneid that, since compensation was not in his consular role, he should have applied to services in Australia for financial support. But its application was denied not to meet the requirements for an disability pension.

“So I am disabled to the point of not guiding (being capable), but not enough to get a payment,” said Abu Izneid.

The compensation would help his family cover the cost of his emergency journey from the West Bank and overcoming the difficulties of being blind in one eye.

“There is no quantity of money or compensation that can compensate for someone’s life completely ruined,” he said.

“I was in my third year of dentistry. I was about to become a dentist. I had two -eyed eye bulbs in my head, now I miss an eye bulb. I have a permanently ruined face.”

In the days following his injury on November 15th of last year until he arrived in Australia, Abu Izneid lawyers claim that the DFAT staff who work on his case did not provide adequate care.

The day of his wounds, Abu Izneid was accompanied to the ST John Eye hospital in Jerusalem with a DFAT official, but there was no surgeon available to treat it until the following day.

Her lawyers claim that her family asked her to be transferred to another hospital to receive urgent care to treat her other Shrapnel injuries, but the DFAT official did not witness and insisted on the adequate eye hospital. The following day he received eye treatment.

Abu Izneid lawyers defined the late “completely unacceptable in circumstances in which hospitals in Israel and elsewhere were available” and that “the Australian government could have taken measures to facilitate immediate transfer for emergency surgery”.

Consular assistance of DFAT can include connection with or visits to local hospitals, connection with local authorities, supply of lists of medical and assistance suppliers that communicate with family members or appointed contacts.

Abu Izneid also says that Foreign Minister Penny Wong broke his promise to meet her, after learning that his family wanted lawyers present.

Shortly after he arrived in Australia, Abu Izneid’s father, Tareq, contacted a meeting with Wong. The and -mail seen by this Masthead show that the Wong office was initially willing to organize a meeting with the minister. But Khider, Abu Izneid’s lawyer, claims that the offer was withdrawn when he became clear that his father wanted the lawyers to participate.

Wong then sent a handwritten letter by expressing his sympathy to Abu Izneid and promised that he was urging Israel to complete an in -depth investigation.

“I am following your situation closely. Both the attorney general that I have communicated the need for a transparent, complete and in -depth investigation of the Israeli government,” Wong wrote in the letter.

The Wong office said the minister did not withdraw the offer to meet Abu Izneid and his family.

The minister’s office declared due to the requests made of DFAT in this case, it was prudent for the Department to meet the representatives of Abu Izneid in the first place, also to discuss the consular services provided and the requests of his family.

But for Abu Izneid, who is still looking for answers on what happened to her, Wong’s letter is disappointing.

Recently it has been accepted to continue studying Melbourne University, although it is not in dentistry. He cannot study for long periods of time before his eye was held.

And he says that being on the campus also makes painful memories of his university in the West Bank appears and the day when his life has been repeated.

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