“The closure was not the first of its kind, but part of a systematic Israeli targeting of institutions that provide services to Palestinian society,” Ghassan Hamdan, director of the Medical Relief Society in Nablus, told Anadolu.
The Israeli army carries out near-daily raids in occupied West Bank cities and towns, often involving arrests, field interrogations and home searches.
Since October 8 2023, attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank have killed at least 1,173 Palestinians, injured 12,666 and led to the arrest of about 23,000, according to official figures.
The attacks also include the demolition of homes and facilities, the razing of agricultural land, preventing farmers from reaching their land, displacing residents from their homes and expanding settlements in the occupied territory.
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Palestinians warn that the attacks are paving the way for Israel to formally annex the West Bank, which would end the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state under relevant UN resolutions.
Israel was established in 1948 on lands occupied by armed Zionist groups that carried out massacres and displaced at least 750,000 Palestinians. It later occupied further territories and refuses to withdraw or allow the establishment of a Palestinian state.
