Al-Nawati tragedy: a 16-year-old patient with leukaemia and no access to cancer care

The Palestinian health-care system is described as being incoherent and fragmented. This situation can be attributed to several challenging conditions: 1 WHOHealth conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan. World Health Organisation, Geneva2020 Google Scholar the geographical separation and the disrupted movement between the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem, checkpoints in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the separate government health systems in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and the heavy reliance on external health financing and the partial dependence on out-of-pocket payments borne directly by patients.