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WHO in occupied Palestinian territory
Amal “I don’t know why I am prevented. I have been waiting so long! I need to have this test so the doctor can make a clear diagnosis and give me proper treatment. I suffer and worry every day.”
Amal, 38 years old from Gaza city, was found to have a brain aneurysm (a potentially life-threatening ballooning of a blood vessel) in March 2022. On 5 June 2022, Amal was referred to An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus, in the West Bank, for brain catheterization and scan (angiography), a procedure not available in the Gaza Strip. She made...
Khalid “He is a patient and has the same right as any person who wants to get treatment.”Khaled Riham, wife of Khalid
Khalid, 36 years old from Gaza city, has end stage kidney failure. For 16 years, he has been dependent on weekly haemodialysis (a procedure to remove waste and water from the blood, to perform the function of healthy kidneys). In late 2022, Khalid required referral out of Gaza for vascular surgery so that he would be able to keep having...
WHO reports underline barriers to the Right to Health in the occupied Palestinian territory
9 May 2023 - Palestinians continue to encounter major obstacles to realizing the right to health. Today, WHO launches two reports, Right to Health 2019 to 2021 and Palestinian Voices 2022 to 2023. The reports outline how fragmentation of the Palestinian people, implementation of a permit regime, physical obstacles to movement, and protection gaps...
Palestinian Voices 2022 - 2023
Gaza Health Access Click to download Throughout the year, WHO continued to document the impact of barriers to health access on the Palestinian people in Gaza.Below are three of the cases documented from 2022 to 2023: Khalid “He is a patient and has the same right as any person who wants to get treatment.” Riham, wife of Khalid Khalid, 36...
WHO delivers $1.5M of medicines and supplies to Al-Makassed Hospital through UAE Aid support
31 March 2023 – WHO has delivered a $1.5M shipment of critical medicines and medical supplies to Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem through the generous support of UAE Aid. The shipment will help in plugging critical gaps in need to support the continuity of lifesaving health care at the hospital, which is currently facing disruption in...
Increasing attacks on health care & health worker testimony
In February 2023, there was a significant increase in attacks on health care in the West Bank. Health attacks occurred in the context of major incursions by Israeli forces into Palestinian towns and refugee camps and a rise in violence carried out by Israeli settler groups. WHO verified 47 health attacks in the first two months of 2023, which...
Hamzeh, a paramedic, severely injured in a health attack in Nablus
27-year-old Hamzeh Abu Hajar is a volunteer paramedic with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS). Hamzeh first joined PMRS in 2019, participating in courses on first aid and community engagement at their youth centre. In March 2020, after the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in the occupied Palestinian territory, he signed up to...
West Bank Access 2022
Click to download Throughout the year, WHO continued to document the impact of barriers to health access on the Palestinian people in the West Bank.Below are two of the cases documented during 2022: April Communities in the Jordan Valley depend on precarious mobile clinic access Moaayd Daraghmeh is the driver of a mobile clinic for the Palestine Red...
WHO receives trauma and emergency surgical kits to boost medical stocks
8 February 2022 – WHO has received 7 pallets of different modules of lifesaving trauma and emergency surgical kits through the support of the Government of the Russian Federation. The kits are enough to cover the health needs of up to 250 severely injured patients and 1000 moderate to lightly injured patients. The kits will boost WHO’s stock of...
Health attacks oPt 2022
Click to download Throughout the year, WHO continued to document attacks on health care. Below are 2 of the cases documented during 2022. June St Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem attacked In May, Israeli forces attacked St Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem during the funeral of renowned Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The pallbearers...
