Israel has "significantly contributed" to improving Palestinian health, according to a leading medical expert.
Professor David Stone said there had been allegations in medical journals that Israel had systematically damaged Palestinian health since the 1967 war.
He said: "Infant mortality is a key figure for analysing the overall healthcare of a population. I was able to show that the steep declines in infant mortality in the West Bank and Gaza were in very much the same order as in Israel and surrounding countries."
Prof Stone, emeritus professor of paediatric epidemiology at Glasgow University, also noted that immunisation coverage among Palestinians was comparable with Israelis.
