Israel delivers medical supplies to West Bank

SALFIT, West Bank: Around 300 Israeli peace activists, both Jews and Arabs, on Saturday delivered essential medical supplies to a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, isolated by the Israeli military sweep of the region.


Five buses full of activists carrying medical supplies and equipment, including an ultrasound machine, entered the Palestinian self-rule town of Salfit, which residents said had been locked down and searched by Israeli forces as part of the Army's Operation Determined Path.


The Israeli Army allowed the convoy organised by the Taayush group to enter the area - nominally under Palestinian control, and closed to Israeli citizens -- after negotiating with the peace activists, who drove into the town during a lifting of the curfew.


Palestinian residents turned out to wave to the convoy as it drove into town, while the head of the emergency clinic set up last year to serve the 60,000 Palestinians living in the area said the delivery was "very important."