Gazans drove a convoy of ambulances along the Israeli border on Monday to protest import restrictions on medical equipment, which the health ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave warned puts patients at risk. Israel bans the transfer of goods to Gaza which it claims could be used for military purposes, as part of a blockade it has imposed on the coastal territory since the armed group Hamas took power in 2007. “Preventing the entry of medical devices means the slow death of Gaza patients,” read a banner spread across one of around 25 ambulances used in the rally. Another poster, in Arab…