Israeli police have carried out multiple raids against a hospital in occupied East Jerusalem over the past two days, seeking the location of a 15-year-old Palestinian protester who they’d shot, and who they accuse the hospital of “unlawfully” hiding.
The hospital denies the boy was ever there for treatment to begin with, but says that the police are questioning doctors on all teens being treated, and combed over their surveillance footage trying to find evidence of patients injured in the increasingly violent military crackdown against Palestinian neighborhoods. They reported no arrest made.
Police are insisting they have evidence the hospital has treated “hundreds”of injured patients who participate in the “rioting” against the government, and also claimed to have secured files relating to the 15-year-old in question, vowing to see him indicted.
Several hospitals have reported similar pressure to provide evidence against their wounded patients, and the hospitals are calling on the International Red Cross and other aid agencies to prevent Israel from using raids as an attempt to coerce them into providing their records.
I am Jewish and I am so deeply deeply troubled by the behavior of the Israeli's! It's like they've all completely lost their minds. Where exactly is that moral high ground they told me about in Hebrew school (1967 – 1971)??
The same place the American moral high ground is…deemed unnecessary.
They never had it cock and will continue to murder, destroy, steal Palestinian lands just as what the US did to the native americans
Being Jewish is fine–supporting a colonial-settler state is not. I wouldn't use "troubled" to describe Israeli actions.
Same Israeli government that is desperately searching hospitals for a shot Palestinian is treating Al Qaida troops shot in Syria no questions asked.