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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-stops-referring-palestinian-patients-to-israeli-hospitals/
PA Stops Referring Palestinian Patients to Israeli Hospitals
(Times of Israel) Adam Rasgon - The PA Health Ministry has stopped referring Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to Israeli hospitals, a Palestinian official confirmed on Monday. Last year, the PA sent 50,000 Palestinians to Israeli hospitals, said PA Health Ministry spokesman Osama al-Najjar. The Israel Finance Ministry deducts funds for medical bills from taxes that Israel collects on behalf of the PA, in accordance with the Paris Protocol, an annex of the Oslo Accords. The PA is no longer willing to accept this arrangement and will refer all ill persons requiring special operations or treatment that Palestinian hospitals cannot provide to medical institutions in Jordan and Egypt.