Health professionals ‘trapped’ in hospital during Israeli attack in West Bank

The leader of Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday that he and his staff were stuck in a hospital in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank because of an Israeli raid.

Two Palestinians were hurt and they died because the ambulances couldn’t get to them in time.

“For two hours, we couldn’t go to help people because Israeli military vehicles were blocking the hospital entrance and road. Ambulances couldn’t get out and people couldn’t reach us. ” Christos Christou wrote on a social media platform.

A doctor feels really bad when they know there are people who need our help and can’t get it, he said.

A video from CNN shows army vehicles in the city close to the refugee camp and the sound of loud gunfire. A representative from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jenin said they helped three people who were shot, and that Israeli forces have surrounded the city’s main hospitals.

The small camp is home to over 17,000 Palestinian refugees and has been a frequent site of violence in the West Bank. Israel says that terrorists are in the area.

At least 14 Palestinians died in the camp this month when the Israeli military tried to stop terrorist activities and destroy the home of a man who killed an off-duty Israeli soldier. During the weekend, five Palestinians died in Jenin when Israeli forces came in, as reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are fighting against terrorism in the area and will keep doing so throughout the night.

Mahmoud Al-Saadi, who speaks for PRCS Jenin, told CNN that the Israeli military has surrounded the main hospitals in Jenin and is checking all ambulances going to or from these hospitals.

“We took three people with gunshot wounds to the hospital tonight. It’s really tough here with a lot of shooting and fighting, and we can hear explosions far away,” said Al-Saadi.

Al-Saadi said a young man with special needs was taken out of a medical vehicle and arrested by Israeli forces in the city earlier today.

The man was shot in the leg and when paramedics tried to take him to the hospital, the Israeli military arrested him.

The PRCS’s medical team taking care of the hurt man were stopped for about an hour by the Israeli military in front of the hospital.

“The Israeli army stopped the ambulance for about one hour in front of the hospital before transferring the wounded man to an Israeli military ambulance,” Al-Saadi explained.

The fighting between Israel and Hamas has spread to the West Bank, where there have been attacks and fights between settlers and Palestinians, resulting in the deaths of many Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 240 Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.