The Medical Association for Hospitals: "Treating Hamas terrorists is our duty as doctors"

The Israel Medical Association today (Sunday) sent a letter to hospital administrators in Israel, following the demonstrations outside medical institutions regarding the provision of medical treatment to Hamas terrorists in Israel. The Chairman of the Ethics Bureau, Yossi Valfish , wrote that he "felt the need to emphasize the ethical obligation at this time".

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"Treating everyone, including Hamas terrorists, is required, but it is our duty as doctors," it says, arguing that the rules of international law, the Geneva Convention, and the rules of the State of Israel require that "a doctor treat every person regardless of who they are." It is also written that the only consideration facing the doctors should be the patient's medical condition. "The judicial system can bring them to justice," it was mentioned. He concluded the letter by saying that they give the doctors full backing.

The backing for the issue comes after repeated public protests on the issue. Amiram Ben Zaken , a resident of the south who volunteers at one of the hospitals, told "Maariv" about his difficult feelings : "I was in the hospital from the first day the fighting started, suddenly I was in the emergency room and I see a lot of policemen around the bed, I got angry, I went berserk. They warned me not to approach the hospital, they They didn't want them to know that the terrorists were being hospitalized there. They forced me to delete the video, but before they asked, I had already sent it and that's how it was distributed."

Herzl Hajaj , the father of the late Shir Hajaj , who was murdered in the attack in 2017, also discussed the issue with Sivan Cohen on 103fm and shared his anger due to the hospitalization of the Nuhba terrorist in Hadassah Hospital: "A terrorist is a terrorist, No terrorist should enter an Israeli hospital."

He went on to say: "We received a message from the hospital staff that there was a terrorist there. I was at a commemoration event for a song at Azrieli College. I quickly decided to run there, I didn't know how many there would be, who they would be. We went up to the ward, and then (you see it in the video), they just brought him the The treats of the food. We realized that the terrorist was there, we shouted, there were two soldiers guarding him, a room alone."