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...

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...

                                                                                                                                                           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...

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...

                                                                                                                                                                               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...

October PRCS driver testimony of an attack in Beit Furik, Nablus: On 2 October 2022, a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance crew travelled to Beit Furik near Nablus, to provide first aid to persons injured during demonstrations against settlement expansion and incursions in the village, when the team was attacked. Read...

June 2022 In May, Israeli forces attacked St Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem during the funeral of renowned Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The pallbearers were beaten, with police firing tear gas grenades, sound bombs and rubber bullets in the grounds of the hospital. Armed police entered the hospital building causing intimidation of...

                                                                                                                                                                               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 four of the cases documented during 2022: January Saleem, a 16-year-old child with leukaemia, dies after barriers to hospital admission Saleem An-Nawati was 16 years old from Gaza and had acute...

Saleem An-Nawati was 16 years old from Gaza and had acute leukaemia diagnosed in late 2021. He was initially referred for an appointment at An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus in the West Bank on 28 November 2021, but he received no definitive response to his permit application in time for his appointment. Saleem was delayed a permit to reach...

Nurse Ibrahim checks on a patient in the ICU, European Gaza Hospital “Seeing someone so young attempt to take their own life is heart-breaking. Though we work in a tough environment, witnessing such suffering never gets easy. Sadly, this is not our first such case,” says Ibrahim, ICU Nurse at the European Gaza Hospital. Recently, he has been...