Emergency patient dies near Hebron after Israeli forces block checkpoint

Iman Muhammad Abdul Salam Eid, 45, died yesterday at the Beit Einun checkpoint, northeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces blocked her access to medical care following a heart attack, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Israel has intensified raids in the occupied West Bank in recent days and installed iron gates at the entrances of towns and villages.

According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian government body, the number of Israeli military checkpoints and gates in the occupied West Bank has increased to 898.