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<div class="article-meta"><span class="createdate"> Wednesday, 12 January 2011 11:45 </span></div>
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<div class="img_caption null" style="width:250px;"><img class="caption" title="Medical crews from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David, routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages." src="https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/images/article_images/news/middle-east/israeli-ambulance-refuse-to-enter.jpg" border="0" alt="Israeli ambulances refuse to enter 'unrecognized' Palestinian villages" />Medical crews from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David, routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages.</p>
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<p>Palestinian  rights organizations working in Israel have stated that medical crews  from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David,  routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages &#8216;unrecognized&#8217; by the  state and therefore, do not provide medical assistance to the residents.</p>
<p>The  Adala Centre for Human Rights and the Yasmin of Negev Association have  stated that in most instances following an accident or an emergency,  villagers from the Negev must resort to calling for an Israeli  ambulance. Calls to the Red Shield of David are met with rejection on  the pretext that there are no paved roads to their villages, or that  their villages are not recognized by the Israeli authorities.</p>
<p>The Adala Centre for Human Rights and the Yasmin of Negev Association  added that in cases when Red Shield of David ambulances do go out to  assist villagers in the Negev, they arrive hours late and are therefore  of no use. In some cases, the medical crews ask those calling for the  ambulance to move patients themselves and to transfer them to more  accessible points outside the village, given that there are no paved and  safe roads linking these villages with the main roads.</p>
<p>The two  Palestinian rights organizations called on Israel&#8217;s Deputy Health  Minister, Yaakov Litzman, and the Red Shield of David&#8217;s General of the  South, Yahouza Shoshman, to order ambulance staff to change this policy  of refusing to enter villages unrecognized by the Israeli authorities.</p>
<p>The  Negev comprises 43 villages which the Israeli authorities refuse to  recognize. They are inhabited by around 100,000 Palestinians, the  majority of whom are children.</p>
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