IOF closes Health Work Committees’ center in Jerusalem
by FalastinNews Staff
Israeli
Occupation Forces (IOF) escorted by policemen stormed Health Work
Committees’ center in Shufat in Occupied Jerusalem and handed a one-year
closure notice to the staff.
The Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA)
claimed that “the center is used for terrorist activities and
accordingly it has been decided to close it for one year based on
Prevention of Terrorism Act (1948)”.
The center is run by the Health Work
Committees School Health Program which offers health services to
Jerusalemite students in more than 62 schools. Thousands of students as
well as teachers and parents benefit from the program.
The Israeli officers stormed the center,
confiscated its computers and handed summonses to the head of the school
health program and its administrative assistant to be questioned in
Israeli intelligence headquarters.
The program started its work in Occupied
Jerusalem in 1990. It offers health services and health educational
activities to school students.
The services include children vaccination,
preventive and diagnosis medical checkups and many others in light of
the fact that Israel does not allow the Palestinian Ministry of Health
to work in schools of Occupied Jerusalem.
The Health Work Committees in Jerusalem
called on the international and local human rights, health and legal
institutions to intervene in order to oblige Israel to cancel the
closure order.
It said the closure order is arbitrary and unjust as it affects the health of thousands of the Jerusalemite school students.
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