Over the first three days of intervention in Ramallah, 12 denials of access for PRCS were reported. On 1 April, according to the UPRMC head, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, IDF soldiers detained a physician in the complex, and forced him to serve as a human shield while they conducted searches of the facility of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees in Ramallah.
This morning 9 members of the Palestinian Red Cresent Society, including the President of the Society, Younis Al Khatib, were arrested in Ramallah. According to a spokseperson they were travelling in three ambulances and were responding to urgent calls of sick and injured when they were stopped.
Water and Electricity
Water and electricity water and electricity systems have been seriously damaged in Ramallah as a result of the recent military operations. Four villages near Ramallah have been completely cut off from water, according to Abdel Karim Assad, head of the Jerusalem Water Undertaking, the company that provides the water. Mr. Assad estimated on 1 April that some 25,000 residents in the city of 100,000 and its environs have been without water supplies for the last four days.
Most of the neighborhoods around Yasser Arafat's headquarters in mid-Ramallah have had their water and electricity cut after tank movements ruptured lines.
This morning 9 members of the Palestinian Red Cresent Society, including the President of the Society, Younis Al Khatib, were arrested in Ramallah. According to a spokseperson they were travelling in three ambulances and were responding to urgent calls of sick and injured when they were stopped.
Water and Electricity
Water and electricity water and electricity systems have been seriously damaged in Ramallah as a result of the recent military operations. Four villages near Ramallah have been completely cut off from water, according to Abdel Karim Assad, head of the Jerusalem Water Undertaking, the company that provides the water. Mr. Assad estimated on 1 April that some 25,000 residents in the city of 100,000 and its environs have been without water supplies for the last four days.
Most of the neighborhoods around Yasser Arafat's headquarters in mid-Ramallah have had their water and electricity cut after tank movements ruptured lines.