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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Mednick

Rights group warns Israel's policies are pushing the West Bank healthcare system to collapse

West Bank Health System Collapse - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

For six months, 70-year-old Bassam Musleh searched desperately for a pharmacy or clinic that could fill his prescription for blood pressure and other heart medications. Public dispensaries were out of stock, he said, and he couldn't afford the private ones.

But when he arrived Tuesday at a mobile clinic in the West Bank village of Iktaba, pulling the tattered prescription from his pocket, a local aid group finally gave him the medication he needs.

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