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Emergency Medical Services

Levantine Arabic transcript:

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English translation:

Man: Hello, I’m Mohammad Samhaan, the director of the Center for Emergency Medical
Services in the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Of course, my experience, I have been working
with the Red Crescent for thirteen years, I work in the Red Crescent in the field of Relief and
Emergency. Our basic task as Relief and Emergency is that we answer the calls which come
from the citizens through the Ambulances we own. Of course, answering calls is something basic
to us -- that the call is answered with the appropriate speed, on the basis that there will be a
response and an arrival at the location of the accident, or the place of casualty, or the place of the
sick person in the soonest time possible. Of course, as my colleague has mentioned, the basic
thing that obstructs our work is the occupation, and the obstructions, and checkpoints which
spread greatly in our area, in this country. Thus, this is the basic obstruction which we face in our
work. I mean, when we have a patient in the ambulance, this patient, of course, we arrive at
checkpoints; the Israeli checkpoints do not take into consideration that this is an ambulance, and
there is a protecting international humanitarian law, and laws and international conventions
which legislate and state that the ambulance should not be stopped, that it should not be
searched. This is a car which is carrying a patient; this patient should go straight to the hospital
… thus, he should arrive at the hospital in the soonest time possible. Here, our problem is that at
the checkpoint there are obstructions, there are delays, there is intentional delaying. Many times
the patient stays with us for an hour, sometimes two hours; we are waiting until they do a check
and security checks, you know how, despite the fact they can check in few minutes, but on many
occasions they intentionally want to delay us. Our basic problem, as I said, is that the occupation,
and these ongoing and spreading checkpoints, is obstructing our work, is delaying the treatment
of the people who are ill, is delaying our appropriate arrival at the hospitals. Thus, we have many
recorded cases throughout our work … there are many recorded cases, death cases at
checkpoints, cases of birth at checkpoints. In addition to that, we have another subject, and
important subject -- we are not allowed to enter Jerusalem, and you know in East Jerusalem,
according to the agreement, we are allowed to enter it easily and comfortably, but the
checkpoints found in Jerusalem obstruct our work and delay our arrival, and thus we cannot enter
Jerusalem without doing any coordination, and even if there is coordination, the coordination
takes an hour, sometime two hours, until you enter, and at times you do not enter. And there are
many cases, according to the cases observed by us here in the Crescent; we have a daily
observation of the number of cases which do not enter Jerusalem. We have around eighty percent
of the cases -- we do not enter with them into Jerusalem, although these cases need to enter
Jerusalem because they have no treatment in the hospitals in the West Bank. Thus, this is a basic
problem which we face in our work, through this work, through this job which we carry out. I
hope that there will be in the near future, there will be freedom of movement, and freedom for
the movement of ambulances, because this ambulance is not an ordinary car -- it is a car carrying
a patient, and this as a result makes it overcome checkpoints, and the patient arrives at the
hospital that he wants. I hope there will be in the future respect for this car, respect for these
laws, and respect for the international humanitarian law -- thus, allowing free movement for
ambulances to enter and deliver the patient to any hospital.

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