RAMALLAH – Government’s spokesman Yousef al-Mahmoud said Tuesday that a number of outlaws who on Monday assaulted medical staff at Razi hospital in Jenin and at Hebron public hospital, in two separate incidents, have been caught and are now in police custody.
Al-Mahmoud, speaking on behalf of the Council of Ministers, condemned the two attacks describing them as insulting acts that are not in line with Palestinian norms and traditions.
This came as a video, which went viral online, showed a group of assailants attack medical staff, including physicians, at Razi hospital in Jenin, in the north of the West Bank on Monday evening.
The assailants were reportedly furious by the hospital’s administration refusing to transfer one of their relative patients, who had just arrived to hospital with critical injuries resulting from a car accident, to a hospital in Israel.
The prison’s administration said such transfer required coordination with the Ministry of Health, which usually takes a while before a patient’s transfer is approved, therefore it had to provide the necessary medical care to the patient.
Governor of Jenin, Ibrahim Ramadan, also condemned the attack, saying all outlaws have to understand that no one is above the law.
Speaking to a crowd of medical staff from Jenin’s hospitals who were protesting the attack, Ramadan promised the assaulted doctors and medical staff that the assailants will be given the maximum legal penalties applicable.
(WAFA)
