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Amnesty protests as Israel shuts down Palestinian health organization Israel has previously accused employees of the Palestinian Health Work Committees of links to a Palestinian terror group. Palestinian men walk past street art showing doctors mask-clad due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 12, 2020. - MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images
June 10, 2021
The Israeli army’s recent shutdown of a health organization in the West Bank will have “catastrophic consequences” on Palestinian health care, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces raided the Ramallah office of the Palestinian Health Work Committees (HWC), breaking down the door and confiscating computers and memory drives. According to the rights group, the office was ordered to close for six months.
9 June 2021, 17:19 UTC
The Israeli authorities’ decision to shut down the Palestinian Health Work Committees (HWC) will have catastrophic consequences for the health needs of Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), said Amnesty International today.
In the early hours of 9 June, Israeli army forces raided the HWC headquarters in Ramallah. They broke down the door, confiscated computers and memory drives, and issued a military order forcing the office to close for six months. The organization has come under attack repeatedly, with employees facing harassment and arrest for its alleged affiliation with the Popular Liberation Front for Palestine, a Palestinian political party with an armed wing.
Ramallah office of a health group raided by Israeli occupation forces, ransacked and hard discs seized
Computer hard discs seized during an Israeli army raid of the Health Work Committees office in Ramallah.
RAMALLAH, Monday, March 8, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces raided early this morning the headquarters of the Palestinian Health Work Committees (HWC) in Ramallah, ransacked it, and seized the computer hard discs, according to a statement by HWC.
It said the soldiers raided the building in a Ramallah neighborhood where the HWC headquarters is located, broke down the doors to the office, searched the premises for hours before leaving with the hard discs and other documents.