April 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The NGO Doctors Without Borders has reported that one of its volunteers has been injured in the leg during the Israeli Army's incursion into the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, in Tulkarem, and that it took seven hours to reach the hospital amid restrictions. increasing numbers to the movement in the West Bank.
“An MSF-trained paramedic volunteer was shot in the leg while on duty. Due to hostilities, it took him 7 hours to reach the hospital,” said coordinator Itta Helland-Hansen.
MSF denounces the violence that has reigned in the last three days in the refugee camp, the scene of an Israeli operation that has left 14 dead. In its message published on its X social network account, the NGO denounces the death of a minor from a gunshot wound.
“A member of our staff performed CPR on a 16-year-old boy after he was shot in the head, but was unable to save him,” Helland-Hansen says.
MSF reports that its aid workers have witnessed “an increase in violence and movement restrictions, including blockades of ambulances” in the West Bank.
“People with life-threatening injuries cannot wait to get to hospitals. Attacks on healthcare workers and disruption of access to healthcare are unacceptable,” they added.
