The healthcare system in the West Bank is rapidly deteriorating due to Israel's blocking of funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA), Al Jazeera reported. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spearheaded the withholding of tax revenues, plunging the PA into financial distress, making it unable to pay healthcare workers full salaries and purchase essential medicines. Hospitals face funding shortages, medical staff receive only half their salaries, and many cancer patients are seeing their conditions worsen due to missed critical treatments or lack of medication.