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I am a doctor in the occupied West Bank. Our hospitals are dying

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Doctot onWest BankFor the past four years, I have witnessed the slow deterioration of our healthcare system. In the last two years, the situation has escalated dramatically - into something catastrophic.

Our hospitals are not simply struggling. They are being pushed beyond their limits, and our pharmacy shelves are bare.

Day by day, medicine by medicine, surgery by surgery, the system that thousands of patients depend upon is collapsing before our eyes.

This is not a natural crisis. It is the direct result of the economic collapse in Palestine and the withholding of clearance revenues - Palestinian tax funds collected by Israel. These funds, which constitute over 60 percent of the Palestinian Authority's revenues, have been frozen for months.

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