Rights group warns of mounting health risks in wake of Israeli closures around Nablus

LONDON: Israeli military closures since Friday around the occupied West Bank city of Nablus have severely disrupted access to hospitals and emergency care, an Israeli medical rights group has said. Physicians for Human Rights Israel warned that the measures, which have effectively sealed off cities, villages and surrounding communities, have left ambulances unable to reach patients and blocked urgent medical care. “The closures are still continuing today,” Imran Anati, a researcher in PHRI’s occupied Palestinian territory department, told Arab News on Monday.

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