READ MORE: Security scanner blamed for woman's death - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "A 57-year-old Palestinian woman with a pacemaker died over the weekend, after passing through the scanning machine at the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The woman, Fatima Mahmoud Abu Obeid, crossed over to Egypt along with her husband, and about half an hour later suddenly collapsed. She was taken by ambulance to a Rafah hospital on the Egyptian side where she was pronounced dead.
Palestinian sources blamed her death on the border scanning machine, described as a 'U.S.-made advanced portal using millimeter wave holographic technology to screen passengers for weapons and explosives.'"
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