Mahmoud Alsaadi, who leads ambulance operations for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, says Israeli raids and movement restrictions have made it impossible for the group to provide timely care to injured and sick Palestinians.

This not only impacts Palestinians wounded by Israeli attacks, he said in a post on X, but other Palestinians facing unrelated medical emergencies.

“There are many humanitarian cases and we receive calls from citizens with medical conditions — kidney patients, heart patients, or cancer patients. All of these cases require transportation to hospitals.”

Due to Israeli authorities’ lengthy inspections of PRC ambulances and “harassment of medical staff”, such patients in need of urgent hospital treatment may be held up for more than an hour, putting their lives in jeopardy, Alsaadi said.