Data: 277 Israeli attacks on medical staff since outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the Israeli occupation forces committed 277 attacks against ambulance crews in the Palestinian territories since the beginning of October.

In a statement received by Quds Press yesterday, the society explained that the occupation forces wounded 131 Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics and volunteers, in addition to damaging 76 ambulances and preventing crews from reaching 70 cases of wounded and sick people.

The head of the Red Crescent Society, Younis Al-Khatib, accused the Israeli occupation of launching a campaign of incitement against the organisation and its crews.

During a meeting with a number of diplomatic representatives yesterday, Al-Khatib stressed that the occupation’s campaign against the society aims at “turning the attention of the world away from the escalation of attacks against the health institutions and hospitals in the Palestinian territories.”

The Israeli government accused the Palestinian Red Crescent of not providing relief to the wounded settlers who were injured in the shooting carried out by a Palestinian near the city of Hebron last Friday, and led to the death and injury of three settlers.