Waiting at the checkpoints as each precious minute slips away for his patients requiring emergency medical attention leaves Diriya on edge. Even before the de facto lockdown that began on Friday evening, towns and villages in the West Bank have had checkpoints multiply and entrances increasingly sealed off entirely – with fatal results. The World Health Organization documented 233 attacks on healthcare facilities, workers, and ambulances across the West Bank in 2025 alone. “The attacks they were doing on medical teams in Gaza, you are seeing them do the same thing in the West Bank,” said Anati. When Diriya and his kidney dialysis patients were stopped at the Awarta checkpoint all those hours on Friday, he noticed an Israeli ambulance simply passing through the checkpoint.