“We see how ambulance with people in life -threatening Israeli armed forces are blocked at control points, how medical facilities are surrounded and searched during ongoing operations and how health personnel are exposed to physical violence while trying to save life,” he added.
Israel's approach in West Bank is “part of a pattern of systematic oppression, which, according to the International Court of Justice, violates Article 3 of the International Convention against Racial Disccrimination, which prohibits segregation and apartheid, ”MSF continues.
According to international law, however, Israel is “obliged to ensure access to health care and protect medical personnel as a occupying power, the organization said. “Doctors Without Borders calls on Israel to end violence against health personnel, against patients and health institutions. Medical staff may no longer be prevented from exercising life -saving activities.”
According to the organization, the report covers the period from October 2023 to October 2024 and contains interviews with 38 patients and employees of MSF as well as hospital and nursing staff and volunteers. According to the descriptions, hospitals and health facilities would be besieged by the Israeli army. This also destroys “provisional medical facilities in displaced persons”.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were a total of 694 attacks on the healthcare system in West Bank between October 2023 and December 2024, it continues in the report. “Employees in the healthcare sector feel unsafe because they or their colleagues are bothered, imprisoned, injured and even killed.”
The situation in the refugee camps in Tulkarem and Dschenin, where basic infrastructure was destroyed, was particularly dramatic. In remote areas and on the edge of cities such as Dschenin or Nablus, for example, chronically ill people could not achieve clinics due to the restrictions on movement, MSF explains.
Added to this is the violence by Israeli settlers, which means that “many Palestinians are afraid to move in West Bank”. MSD refers to UN information, according to which there were a total of 1,500 attacks of Israeli settlers on Palestinians from October 2023 to October 2024.
