RAMALLAH: The Ministry of Health warned of the repercussions of the occupation’s siege of Jenin and Tulkarm hospitals.

The Ministry said that dozens of patients are currently being treated in Jenin’s governmental, civil and private hospitals, and that any storming of them is a direct threat to their lives and the lives of medical staff.

The ministry directed all medical staff in Jenin Governorate to head to the nearest health center to support their fellow doctors in dealing with the emergency situation in the governorate, especially after the occupation bulldozed the roads surrounding the hospitals in the city.

It called on the international community and the Red Cross to intervene to protect medical institutions, at a time when the occupation forces are obstructing the arrival of ambulances to them, which exposes the lives of patients and the injured to danger.

The Ministry affirmed that such acts constitute a flagrant violation of human rights, international humanitarian law and international human rig
hts law.

The occupation forces had blocked the roads to Ibn Sina Hospital with earth mounds, and besieged the Martyr Khalil Suleiman Hospital, and the headquarters of the Red Crescent and Friends of the Patients societies.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA