Many patients from the West Bank or Gaza need to travel to East Jerusalem for specialist medical care unavailable elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) such as cardiac surgery and specialist cancer care.
However Israeli barriers to freedom of movement are preventing and delaying patients from accessing urgent treatment in East Jerusalem: both due to delays to ambulances entering the city and a restrictive system of permits.
As visualised here those requiring urgent treatment at hospitals in occupied East Jerusalem are systematically forced to transfer from Palestinian ambulances to Israeli-registered vehicles at checkpoints. This ‘back-to-back’ process is enforced even in critical and emergency cases and can cause life-threatening delays.
Source: Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
