LONDON: An Israeli rights group warned on Thursday that the Palestinian public healthcare system in the occupied West Bank was nearing collapse, saying Israel’s continued withholding of tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority had pushed hospitals and clinics to the brink. Physicians for Human Rights Israel said in a new position paper that 447 of the Palestinian Ministry of Health’s 590 service branches had been forced to sharply cut back operations, functioning only once or twice a week.

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse

Palestinian patients line up for treatment at a mobile health clinic operated by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) in the West Bank town of Iktaba, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026.