Members of IBDAA Health Committee were on tour in the US. They are educating Americans on the devastating condition of health at people at Palestinians and health care workers in West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

The facts on the ground are wondering, but yet the International Community tends to ignore Israel’s widespread violence and warfare against the Palestinians. The violence against health care workers, the health care system and the Palestinian infrastructure are equally appalling.
According to Palestinian Ministry of Health report, 36 health care workers are killed, 447 health providers have been wounded and 129 patients have died at Israeli checkpoints. The question is how? There have been 375 attacks on health care centers, 383 attacks on ambulances, with 38 ambulances destroyed altogether.

Palestinian women in labor is not been left out of the equation of military occupation. Since September 28, 2000, about 67 women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints. As a result, 39 newborns died or they were delivered stillborn. According to a map result the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem there are over 100 established checkpoints throughout the West Bank, in an area totaling 5,970 sq. km, and this figure does not include flying checkpoints and barriers, such as roadblocks, razed roads, dirt mounds, etc. When Israel completes construction of the wall, approximately 33 per cent of villages within the West Bank will be denied "free and open access to their health care system," per the IHC. Moreover, 81 per cent "of people living in isolated zones and enclaves cannot access primary health clinics, medical centers, and hospitals as needed”.