The ReCaP project 2016, delivered by IFMSA Palestine, was a hugely memorable experience. We feel we have gained so much from this experience: we have gained understanding about the situation in Palestine and learnt about the health care system there, challenges providing care under occupation, and health of refugees. We feel we have also benefited on a personal level through participating in the project, by gaining some insight into the lives of our Palestinian hosts and forming strong friendships. 

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Founded in 2003, the Refugee Camp Project is a student-led collaboration between Palestinian and international medical students, which aims to promote learning about conflict, healthcare, and life in Palestinian refugee camps. Each August, a group of international medical students have the unique opportunity to visit the West Bank as guests of IFMSA Palestine.

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On the 31st of The project started on Tuesday, August 2013, 10 medical students from 7 different countries ventured to Damascus Gate, Jerusalem for our first meeting with the Palestinian RE-CAP coordinators. Some 5, 2014. Throughout this month, a number of us came by sherut from Tel Aviv airport, others via yet another bus after travels in Israel, medical, non-medical and another who managed social activities that were done to miss achieve the meeting altogether because after a week goal of hitchhiking the ReCap project in transferring the image about refugee camps residents; their health situation, UNRWA clinics and couch-surfing timekeeping wasn’t really her thing.  the situations in Palestine in general.

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The conflict and socioeconomic isolation that has been engendered by the policies of settlement expansion and separation barrier construction is the arguably the most pervasive threat to the health status of Palestinians in the West Bank. The acquisition of 60% of the West Bank, known as Area C,for ‘near exclusive’ Israeli control has become a major obstacle to delivering basic services. The example of Western Bethlehem is typical of the broader situation across the West Bank where the completion of the separation barrier is projected to reduce access to essential services for over 23,000 Palestinians by separating nine communities from their surrounding agricultural lands.

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