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West Bank healthcare in dire state: MSF
The healthcare system in the occupied West Bank has been in “a state of perpetual emergency” since October 2023, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has said in a new report.
“A dramatic escalation in violence, marked by prolonged Israeli military incursions and stricter movement restrictions … have severely hindered access to essential services, particularly healthcare, exacerbating already dire living conditions for many Palestinians,” it said.
The report examined “the attacks and the obstructions of healthcare in a context of, what has been described by the ICJ (International Criminal Court) as segregation and apartheid” and revealed “a pattern of systematic interference by Israeli forces and settlers in emergency healthcare delivery”.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli troops and settlers have killed at least 884 Palestinians in the West Bank since the Gaza war began on October 7, 2023.
Palestinian paramedics help people injured during an Israeli raid on Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank
Israeli forces injure three Palestinians in Jordan Valley
Israeli soldiers have injured three Palestinians after assaulting them at the Hamra checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley, the Wafa news agency reports, quoting medical sources.
Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances helped the men after they were severely beaten, Wafa added.
According to Wafa, Israeli soldiers have been stationed at the checkpoint for two years, and often block Palestinians from crossing.
Israeli soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint near the village of Tayasir in the northern West Bank on Tuesday
Israeli raids have displaced 26,000 in northern West Bank
It’s been 16 days since Israeli forces launched this big military operation in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and the Jenin refugee camp, to be more specific. They’ve since announced that they’ve expanded it to areas like Tulkarem and its surrounding neighbourhoods.
The Israeli army says this is essentially a counterterrorism operation for them. They want to combat armed Palestinian fighters.
But if you look at what’s going on, you have 26,000 Palestinians who’ve been forcibly displaced, forced to leave their homes. You have the Israeli army levelling residential blocks, mirroring essentially what they’ve been doing in Gaza, detonating homes and killing many Palestinians.
Thick smoke rises over the Jenin refugee camp on Monday during an Israeli raid
Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli soldiers have arrested a young man from the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, after raiding several homes nearby, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli soldiers also arrested a young man from Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, Wafa said, quoting Jerusalem officials.
Palestinians believe West Bank crackdown is an extension of Israel’s war on Gaza
What’s feeding those suspicions is what the Israeli army and the prominent ministers of the Israeli government are saying, which is that, first of all, the West Bank is one front in a multifront war that Israel is waging and that Palestinians don’t see their fate and their strife as separate from that in Gaza.
There is a war that Israel is waging on the Palestinians, and the occupied West Bank is part of it – that is how Palestinians view it and that is how they are living it. Hundreds of new roadblocks have been erected in the occupied West Bank, dissecting that territory and making it almost impossible to travel from one place to another.
The forced displacement in Jenin and Tulkarem replicates in tactics and in pattern what Palestinians have seen their brothers and sisters in Gaza endure for many, many months.
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