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| Masked Israeli troops arrest two militants in raids on two Palestinian hospitals | |||
| 2003-10-25 | |||
| Hamas finds another place isn’t safe for a hide out Dozens of Israeli troops wearing black ski masks and armed with assault rifles raided two West Bank hospitals before dawn Saturday, arresting two suspected Palestinian militants, including a critically injured patient. Unplug ’em and haul em away Around 3 a.m., troops pulled up in jeeps and swept into the two hospitals in the city of Nablus, confining doctors and other staff to rooms for more than an hour as they kicked open doors in room-to-room searches, witnesses said. "I’m sorry visiting hours are....hey!...." The operation followed several similar raids in recent weeks, including cases where soldiers arrested militants hiding in hospitals. It raised fears among doctors and human rights groups that, after three years of fighting, hospitals were no longer neutral ground. sounds like the Paleos already made that clear In Nablus’ Anglican Hospital Saturday, soldiers entered the intensive care unit and snatched Khaled Hamed, a 25-year-old member of the militant Hamas group who was badly injured Wednesday when explosives inside a car he was riding in went off accidentally. One man was killed in the blast and another injured. badly injured and not getting better ..... Dr. Annan Abdel Hak said Hamed lost two fingers in the blast and suffered bleeding in his brain and light burns on his body. "I explained to the soldiers how critical his condition is," said the doctor said. "Then they removed the machines from his body." finish the job Hamed had planned suicide bombing attacks, a military source said, adding that troops took him in a military ambulance to an Israeli hospital where he was in stable condition. Elsewhere in the city, troops stormed Rafidiyeh Hospital and arrested an armed member of the violent Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The military said troops found the man, whom Palestinians identified as Jawad Ishtayeh, 27, hiding in the hospital’s cellar and armed with a pistol. what was that about neutral ground? Palestinian security sources said the man was not a patient and was apparently using the hospital as a hide-out. An American peace activist witnessed the arrest raid in the hospital, where he was recovering from light gunshot wounds to his leg. He said he was hurt along with a fellow activist from Australia by Israeli army gunfire after dark Friday during clashes in the city’s Balata refugee camp. "Around 3 a.m. I was woken up with a flash light shining in my face. I opened my eyes and had an M-16 pointed in my face," said Mark Turner, 24, from Boulder, Colo. "I was so scared I wet myself. I had to pray to St. Pancake for strength" He said soldiers in black ski masks and bullet proof vests stood at the foot of hospital beds for more than an hour, pointing guns at staff and patients and warning people not to make a sound. Phone lines were cut, and soldiers made some doctors and nurses to lie on the ground and told patients to put their hands in the air, Turner said. Another soldier filmed patients with a hand-held video recorder. As they left, Turner looked from a hospital window and saw one man being arrested.
Bwahahaha - why can’t Saeb catch a stray bullet?
"Don’t kill us!" "We are not police, we are doctors first," said al-Johari. "We don’t have the ability to stop people from coming in, to check ID’s, to act as a policing force in the hospital." | |||
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 It's really not the doctor's responsibility to monitor the doors of the hospital--in any large American city the public hospitals have security guards that can make arrests and detain. That's what needs to be done in the Palestinian hospitals if they don't want anymore midnight visits! |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-10-25 12:11:52 PM |
| #2 "We are not police, we are doctors first," said al-Johari. "We don’t have the ability to stop people from coming in, to check ID’s, to act as a policing force in the hospital." I am not a doctor but doesn't part of the Hippocratic oath state, without equivocation: First, do no harm? These people are neck deep in a culture of nihilism and Marxist inspired violence. It would seem to me one of the more prudent measures a physician can take is to ensure he doesn't allow terrorist to hide in his facility to escape justice. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-10-25 12:04:05 PM |
| #1 Bravo! They want conventions honored? Take this for a convention: terrorists will be apprehended at any place, at any time, and in any way. If your culture approves of civilian bus bombings and child suicides, your militants are fair game at any place, at any time, and in any way. Bus bombers, suicidal maniacs, and their leaders don't honor international conventions. Go ahead -- be outraged about that! |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-10-25 11:45:24 AM |