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Rights group warns Israel’s policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse
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WBAL Baltimore News
At PHRI’s mobile clinic in Iktaba, hundreds of people streamed in seeking treatment.
Roland Friedrich, UNRWA’s West Bank director, said there’s been a marked increase in patients at its health centers across the territory.
The lack of medicine, staff shortages and reduced services are being compounded by harsher Israeli restrictions on freedom of movement in the West Bank.
The Israeli military has denied that it prevents medical treatment for civilians and said there is no intention to delay treatment or medical evacuations.
———-Associated Press journalists Jalal Bwaitel in Ramallah, West Bank, and Koral Saeed in Herzliya, Israel, contributed.