On 21 July ‘17, dozens of Israeli police raided al-Makassed hospital in
East Jerusalem seeking to arrest a critically injured Palestinian.
B’Tselem found that armed officers entered various wards. Officers tried
to seize the man’s bed on the way to surgery and pushed medical staff
and persons protecting him. The man died meanwhile. Such violent,
life-endangering conduct cannot be justified. The police can use other
means, without harming staff or patients or violating the convention
that medical staff and clinics are a safe haven.