West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained

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West Bank Healthcare: Closed Roads, Empty Treasury & Doctors Detained

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A three-month-old child in the occupied West Bank was unable to reach a Ramallah hospital after an Israeli military gate closed the road from Deir Ammar refugee camp. The report describes the family’s medical emergency amid road closures, financial strain on the health system, and detention of doctors.

ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The oxygen mask slipped from three-month-old Ahmad Zaid’s face. He was in his father’s arms, in front of a closed Israeli military gate  blocking the road between  Deir Ammar refugee camp, northwest of Ramallah, where the family lives, and the city of Ramallah, with a hospital the family was desperate to […]

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