Gaza healthcare system cannot provide treatment for children with cancer. Families must, therefore, seek therapy abroad. Many look for treatment in Israel's high-tech medicine. Obtaining the right for such treatment is, however, a harsh obstacle course. This paper describes the distressful paths of Gaza families of children with cancer who try to obtain approval for treatment in Israel. Against this background, the paper analyzes Israeli media presentations, which tend to center on the excellent treatment as symbol of benevolence across the political divide. My analysis will offer a critical reading of this favorable portrayal: health services in the Gaza Strip were the official responsibility of Israel, the conquering party, from the 1967 occupation until the Oslo Accord (1994). In 1994, the responsibility was transferred to the Palestinian Authority. However, severe limitations, including tight, ongoing Israeli restrictions on the movement of health professionals and medical supplies, resulted in a deficient healthcare system. The situation has further deteriorated since 2007, when the Hamas assumed power over the Gaza Strip and Israel enforced a general blockade. Seriously ill Gaza residents thus depend on foreign providers, for their survival. They also depend on the Israeli authorities for permits to cross the Gaza-Israel checkpoint. Being the only persons allowed to request such exit permits, and being in urgent need of life saving high-tech medicine that is not available locally, these sick individuals – now rendered "humanitarian cases" – as well as their relatives, are an invaluable source of information for Israel's security forces. As such, they are being subjected to interrogations by the General Security Service, and their fate largely depends on satisfying political-security demands. Notably, once approved, the treatment itself is of the highest standard. The costs are covered primarily by the Palestinian Authority and by Israeli NGOs that are funded by EU donations. Within this context, the media focus on the quality medicine and care seems to serve several ends. It enhances Israel's 'Western' 'scientifically advanced' as well as peace seeking image. At the same time, these very images allow to bracket off Israel's role in generating the need of Gaza citizens to seek treatment abroad, the fate of those Gaza patients who are refused treatment, and more generally, the construction of high-tech medicine as a reward for prescribed political behavior.