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Palestinians struggle to access medical services in the West Bank as Israeli military raids intensify [1]

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Date: 2024-09

Further impeding access to care, ambulances and health workers have been repeatedly attacked—including in Jenin and Tulkarm—seriously compromising medical activities. The MSF-supported Khalil Suliman Hospital in Jenin remains surrounded by Israeli forces and struggles to access water and electricity to carry out its operations.

A volunteer paramedic trained by MSF describes how she was wounded while providing first aid to a patient in a camp in Tulkarm: “Even while wearing my medical uniform, I was hit by munitions from the air and was injured above my eye and got shrapnel wounds.”

Another paramedic trained by MSF describes how Israeli soldiers entered his home and threatened him: “Israeli forces broke down my door. I informed them several times that I was a volunteer for medical organizations, but they dragged me out and kicked my back before pointing a weapon at my head.”

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[1] Url: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/palestinians-struggle-access-medical-services-incursions-west-bank-increase-intensity

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