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

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people's movement. They have a series of checkpoints, and people cannot pass through the checkpoint

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unless they have the permission of the Israeli Defence Forces. And those permits are given

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out very sparingly. If you're a pregnant lady and you turn up at a checkpoint, you may or

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may not have permission to go through. If you don't have a permit, they would send you

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back, and you would need to go through the process of applying for a permit. And that

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can take anything from a day to several days, and may not result in you getting a 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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healthcare. Before we began, if they were sick, they needed to go to one of the health

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facilities in the nearby big towns. So they were effectively without any kind of healthcare.

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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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healthcare providers. What we're trying to do is to keep that health system operating

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as best we can. It's the bare minimum. The moment a peace process is achieved, and the

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humanitarian situation improves, we can simply hand it back. They won't need us. They can

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do it themselves. This is a very educated population. You have the expertise, and you

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have the capacity.

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