The condemnation on Thursday came after a
group of 21 agents attacked al-Ahli hospital to capture Azzam Ezzat
Shalaldeh, 20, who had been shot by an Israeli settler last month, the
Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
During the attack, the
Israeli agents also shot and killed Shalaldeh’s cousin Abdallah Azzam
Shalaldeh, also in his 20s, claiming that he had tried to attack them.
However, his relatives say that the victim was coming out of the
bathroom unaware of what had been taking place.
In a statement
released on Thursday, the medical charity called on “the relevant
military authorities to respect the special status that [the
international humanitarian law] grants to medical facilities and the
wounded and sick.”
MSF denounced the way in which Shalaldeh was
detained as “serious” and contrary “to the principles of neutrality and
respect of the medical mission.”

International
law “demands that sick and wounded people be treated without any
discrimination in conformity with medical ethics,” the statement added.
Pointing
to the killing of Shalaldeh’s cousin during the raid, MSF said relevant
authorities must inform and train members of the armed forces to
respect medical facilities and personnel as well as patients and their
caretakers so that other incidents of this kind will be prevented in the
future.
The charity also expressed concern about the fate of
Shalaldeh who was still in recovery room after undergoing three
surgeries at the hospital.
Amnesty International, in a separate
statement, also slammed the murder of Shalaldeh’s cousin, saying the
fact that he was shot in the head and upper body “suggests this was an
extrajudicial execution.”
The Israeli agents made their way into
the hospital under the guise of the relatives of a pregnant woman, and
went inside the room where the injured Palestinian was resting.

A few minutes later, according to what is
seen in footage from the hospital, the armed agents left with someone in
the wheelchair, apparently the hospitalized Palestinian.
“They
banned the medical team from moving and they took control of the surgery
department, went to Shalaldeh’s room and banned anyone from entering,”
the hospital director, Dr. Jihad Shawar, said, adding, “When they left,
the man (Shalaldeh’s cousin) was found bleeding and (staff) tried to
save his life, but he died.”
The deadly raid comes as tensions in
the occupied Palestinian territories have dramatically escalated since
the Israeli regime’s imposition of restrictions on the entry of
Palestinian worshipers to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds
(Jerusalem) in August.