West Bank healthcare system is collapsing due to Israeli policies, rights group says
A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse. The rights group said in the report released Thursday that health workers are not bei…
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A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse. The rights group said in the report released Thursday that health workers are not bei…
IKTABA, West Bank (AP) For six months, 70-year-old Bassam Musleh searched desperately for a pharmacy or clinic that could fill his prescription for blood pressure and other heart medications. Public …
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