Doctors Without Borders warned on Thursday that residents of the city of Jenin and its camp in the northern occupied West Bank are dying because they are unable to reach hospitals to receive treatment, as a result of the ongoing Israeli military operation for the third day in a row.
The organization said on the X platform that Israeli forces opened fire on its ambulance, wounding the patient who was being transported to the hospital.
The organization stated that a 13-year-old child died yesterday, Wednesday, after his father tried to take him to the hospital on foot, because Israeli armored vehicles intercepted the ambulances.
People are dying in Jenin because they cannot reach hospitals. There has been a new Israeli military operation going on for two days. Yesterday a man carried his 13-year-old son on foot to Khalil Suleiman Hospital because Israeli armored vehicles were blocking ambulances. The boy died on arrival.
– Doctors Without Borders (@msf_arabic) December 14, 2023
She added that medical teams treated people injured today from tear gas inhalation, noting that a paramedic was injured by this gas.
The organization stressed the need to stop Israeli attacks on hospitals and ambulances, because they lead to killing.
The number of martyrs of the occupation operation in Jenin and its two camps rose to 11 martyrs, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
For the third day in a row, the Israeli army continues to storm the city of Jenin and its camp, where the occupation forces imposed a siege on neighborhoods in the camp, and were stationed in front of the emergency entrances to Jenin’s government, al-Razi, and al-Amal hospitals.
This comes within the framework of a campaign of raids and arrests launched by the occupation forces in the West Bank, coinciding with the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October.