Tubas - Saba:
On Tuesday afternoon, the Zionist enemy forces arrested five Palestinian medical staff at Tubas Governmental Hospital, including the general director of the hospital, and beat the head of the emergency department.
The Palestinian News Agency quoted the Director General of Hospitals in the Ministry of Health, Haitham Al-Hadri, as saying that the occupation forces arrested five medical staff, including the Director General of the hospital, Muhammad Samara, explaining that those forces took control of the first floor of the hospital, and assaulted the head of the emergency department, Muhammad Ghannam, severely beaten, in front of patients and auditors.
He pointed out that the occupation forces shot at one of the patients inside the hospital, and the nature of his injury is not known until the moment, stressing that what is happening in Tubas Governmental Hospital is part of the systematic Israeli targeting of the Palestinian health system.
He pointed out that the occupation control of the first floor and the transfer of patients to other floors of the hospital endanger their lives.
The agency reported that the occupation forces surrounded the hospital, this afternoon after a vehicle was bombed at the entrance to Aqaba City, which led to the death of two civilians and the injury of another.
This is not the first time that the occupation forces have attacked hospitals and medical personnel, for in every aggression against Palestinian cities, the occupying forces besiege hospitals, obstruct the work of medical staff, and prevent them from carrying out their duties.
At the end of January 2024, an Israeli special force "undercover" infiltrated Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, and assassinated three young men: the two brothers: Muhammad and Bassel Ayman Al-Ghazzawi, and Muhammad Walid Jalamneh, knowing that the martyr Bassel was injured and receiving treatment in the hospital.
According to the Ministry of Health, WHO has reported more than 600 attacks on healthcare facilities and workers in the West Bank, including health, since 7 October 2023.
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