Health Under Occupation: Chapter One Access to Healthcare
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) have co-launched the first in a series of briefings exploring how Israel’s occupation affects the health and dignity of Palestinians.
This first chapter exposes how barriers to freedom of movement imposed by Israel are preventing some Palestinian patients from being able to access centres of vital care. These barriers include the bureaucratic control of movement imposed by Israel’s permit regime, and physical barriers of the network of checkpoints which control access into and out of Gaza, the west Bank and East Jerusalem.
The briefing calls on governments like the UK to place pressure on the Government of Israel to remove obstacles to the right to movement which undermine healthcare.
