20 patients in Rafidya Hospital mostly children suffer lack of oxygen

Over 20 Palestinian patients' lives are endangered for lack of Oxygen in Rafidya hospital, due to the Israeli prevention of the vehicles supplying Oxygen to arrive from Jenin to Nablus after targeting them several time using heavy tank fire forcing them to return to Jenin.

Samir Anabtawi the executive manager of the hospital said that 1"4 children are in the nursery need intensive medical care are doomed to death if they do not get Oxygen soon, where the hospital ran out of the substance days ago with no possibility for refreshing the supplies," Palestinian News Agency WAFA reported today.

He added that "the occupation forces have cut off the electricity supply from the hospital and they are running an old generator that hardly able to provide electricity to few sections of the hospital," the report said.

He said that the situation in the hospital is catastrophic as in the rest of the West Bank Hospitals.