Young Palestinians mostly shot critically in abdomen, legs: Doctors Without Borders

ANKARA (AA) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a humanitarian healthcare organization, has said that the majority of the young Palestinians it received at Jenin Hospital in the West Bank had life-threatening bullet wounds in their abdomens and lower thighs.

“Most of the patients we receive have been shot in the abdomen and legs,” Dr. Pedro Serrano, head of the hospital’s intensive care unit that is supported by MSF or Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement posted on the social media platform X.

“Some have had their liver and spleen shattered, while others have severe vascular injuries,” Dr. Serrano added.

“We had one very sad case of a guy who was walking just outside the hospital entrance when he was shot in the head by a sniper,” he added, noting that “the violence is ongoing and most patients we receive have life-threatening injuries.”

With the ongoing war in Gaza, the situation in the West Bank has also escalated with increasingly violent attacks by illegal Israeli settlers. The fragile healthcare system is overwhelmed with increasing injuries, many of them life-threatening.