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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.
June 5, 2021
RAMALLAH, West Bank Displacement threatens 86 Jerusalemite families, some 750 to 800 people living in 15 buildings in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood of the east Jerusalem area of Silwan. Their houses are claimed by the Ateret Cohanim settler organization.
The situation in Batn al-Hawa is reminiscent of the events in Sheikh Jarrah, which fanned the flames of the recent armed confrontation between the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip and Israel from May 10 to May 20.
Ateret Cohanim aspires to evict Batn al-Hawa s residents and make the neighborhood into a settlement linked to the outposts established in other Jerusalem neighborhoods.
Silwan, located south of the Mughrabi Gate of the Old City, has been the site of intense settlement activity that started with the establishment of two outposts in 2004. In 2014, Jewish settlers bought several properties in the neighborhoods of Wadi Hilweh and Baidoun quarters in Silwan, as well as land in Batn al-H