Israeli army soldiers raided some areas of the West Bank, detained a number of Palestinians, and surrounded and occupied a medical complex in the center of Ramallah, following their widespread pursuit and detention; they shot and wounded a pregnant woman and a paramedic inside the complex to intimidate citizens, patients and medical staff.
According to the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, in response to the Israeli army’s attack on the Ramallah Medical Complex, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement describing the attack as barbaric and a clear violation of international and human rights law under the Geneva Accords.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry further blamed Tel Aviv for the crime and stressed: This crime creates dangerous tensions in the occupiers’ ongoing war against our people, our land, our sanctuaries and our assets, and requires an international response commensurate with the scale of this attack, especially during the outbreak of the Corona virus.
The ministry also stressed: Global silence against this rejected crime is unacceptable and unjustifiable, and the government encourages the occupying regime to commit more violations and crimes against our people.
In Ramallah, Israeli troops raided two houses in the Qadura camp, arresting two young men and arresting a Palestinian citizen in a house in the Al-Jalzun camp.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, fully armed Israeli soldiers stormed the medical complex in the morning and started firing tear gas. Meanwhile, a pregnant woman was wounded in the shoulder by a plastic bullet, as well as the hand of a rescue worker with these plastic bullets. All the patients, especially the children admitted to the center, had difficulty breathing by inhaling tear gas, and an ambulance was damaged.
Palestinian Minister of Health May Al-Kila said: At 4:30 in the morning, the occupiers surrounded the medical complex and shot and fired tear gas inside the building, injuring two people, causing fear and respiratory problems for patients, especially children, and damaging the ambulance.
Al-Kila continued: The presence of patients with Covid 19 in the center made the situation more dangerous. These patients were treated in the intensive care unit, but their lives were seriously endangered by the firing of tear gas.