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Israel is occupying the West Bank, where this village is, and has very tight control over

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people's movement.

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They have a series of checkpoints, and people cannot pass through the checkpoint unless

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they have the permission of the Israeli Defense Forces.

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And those permits are given out very sparingly.

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If you're a pregnant lady and you turn up at a checkpoint, you may or may not have permission

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to go through.

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If you don't have a permit, they would send you back, and you would need to go through

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the process of applying for a permit.

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And that can take anything from a day to several days, and may not result in you getting a

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permit.

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And then there's no guarantee, even if you have a permit, that they will let you through.

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The core aim of the project here is to make sure that the citizens have access to primary

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health care.

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Before we began, if they were sick, they needed to go to one of the health facilities in the

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nearby big towns, so they were effectively without any kind of health care.

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Here we have a chronic emergency, a highly political emergency, but we know that, first

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of all, we have a functioning, a still-functioning health system, and we have very strong local

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health care providers.

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What we're trying to do is to keep that health system operating as best we can.

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It's the bare minimum.

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The moment a peace process is achieved and the humanitarian situation improves, we can

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simply hand it back.

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They won't need us.

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They can do it themselves.

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This is a very educated population.

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You have the expertise and you have the capacity.