LONDON: The West Bank’s health system is being pushed toward a collapse comparable to Gaza’s, not by airstrikes but by financial pressure and restrictions on movement, the head of a US-based medical aid group said on Thursday. Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president and CEO of MedGlobal, told Arab News that the mechanisms differed from those that devastated Gaza’s hospitals and clinics but the outcome for patients could be similar. “Gaza’s health system was largely dismantled through direct bombing, restrictions on medical supplies and fuel, and the effects of siege and displacement,” he said.

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

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…