❗️Four-month-old Palestinian infant dies after Israeli occupation forces refuse emergency passage to ambulance

Four-month-old Ahmad Marouf Zeid died after Israeli occupation forces refused to open the Deir Ammar military gate, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, preventing his urgent transfer for life-saving medical treatment.

According to Palestinian sources, Ahmad's family pleaded with Israeli soldiers to let them through as an ambulance waited on the other side, but the soldiers refused both to open the gate and to transfer the critically ill infant to the ambulance.

He died before reaching hospital care.

The Deir Ammar gate has remained closed for the past four months as part of Israel's broader closure policy across the occupied West Bank.

Since October 2023, Israeli occupation forces have erected and maintained military gates and checkpoints that have cut Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps off from hospitals, schools, workplaces, and essential services.

Palestinian medical sources said Ahmad is not the first Palestinian to die after being denied timely access to emergency medical care at these military barriers.

(Quds News Network)