Doctors Without Borders called on the Israeli occupation army to protect and respect Palestinian medical facilities, staff and patients.
The organization said, in a post on its official account on the X platform, that “Israeli army soldiers raided the Turkish hospital in the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank.”
She explained that according to information collected by Doctors Without Borders teams on December 3 in the West Bank, Israeli forces raided the Turkish hospital in Tubas, opened fire inside it, detained its workers, threatened patients, and damaged the emergency room.
She added that 5 medical staff members were arrested and one person was injured during the raid.
The occupation not only searched and vandalized the Turkish hospital in the city of Tubas in the West Bank, but also investigated the medical staff and arrested some of its members. pic.twitter.com/ZSUzCm2EG9
— AJ+ Arabic (@ajplusarabi) December 4, 2024
The organization continued, “The medical staff there were threatened with weapons and subjected to aggressive interrogation, and the patients were told not to move from their places or they would be shot and killed.”
The organization pointed out that this incursion is only one of many attacks on health care facilities in the West Bank in recent months.
Last Sunday, the organization warned of an increase in the number of disease cases linked to food and water shortages in the Gaza Strip, with humanitarian aid entering the Strip reaching its lowest level in months.
Medical Director of Doctors Without Borders, Fadi Al-Madhoun, said that the health and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is tragic and disastrous.
Al-Madhoun stressed that the biggest challenges facing Gaza’s hospitals are the scarcity of medical resources and the difficulty of bringing them into the besieged Strip, stressing that the health situation in northern Gaza is disastrous and lacks the minimum requirements.
With American support, since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip that left about 150,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.