EMERGENCY APPEAL - Juzoor’s West Bank Humanitarian Health Response

EMERGENCY APPEAL -No one should be cut off from care.
Juzoor’s West Bank Humanitarian Health Response  

Health care is a promise: when something goes wrong, help will reach you in time. In the West Bank, that promise is tested every day. Roads close without warning. Medicine shelves empty faster than they can be refilled. Clinics cannot always open their doors, and the people and places meant to keep them open come under attack. That promise breaks first for those with the least power to protect themselves. Juzoor exists to keep it. This appeal is how we do it, and it cannot wait.

The West Bank is in a public health emergency. Violence, displacement, movement restrictions, attacks on healthcare and economic collapse overlap, and each shock lands before communities have recovered from the last. Roads and gates close without warning, clinics open fewer days, essential medicines run short, and the health workers and facilities families rely on have themselves come under attack. Services that should be a lifeline are being cut off.

The heaviest toll falls on those with the least protection, and mental health is affected across every group.  Children are growing up amid displacement, detention and fear. Women carry some of the heaviest burdens: closed roads and checkpoints delay ambulances and make even routine antenatal care hard to reach, especially in remote communities, while violence at home has risen with economic and displacement pressure. Older people and those with chronic illness are losing the treatment they depend on as medicines run out. For all of them, repeated violence, loss and uncertainty leave deep psychological wounds that too often go unaddressed.

These pressures are felt across the West Bank, and most acutely in the northern refugee camps, Hebron, East Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and rural areas, where closures, curfews and repeated displacement cut communities off from care for weeks at a time.