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A Palestinian doctor has been sacked by an Israeli hospital after offering a flower to a Palestinian boy wounded during an Israeli raid in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, Quds Press revealed on Sunday.
The well-known Hadassah Medical Centre sacked cardiologist and lung specialist Dr Ahmad Mahajneh, an Israeli citizen from Um Al-Fahm. He offered the flower to Ahmed Qteish, 16, who was hit when Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a group of children who were playing on a football pitch in the occupied Palestinian neighbourhood.
The boy has been undergoing treatment for more than a month. The Israeli occupation forces said that they shot him in the belief that he was planning to carry out a stabbing attack.
“Hadassah Medical Centre is a model for Israel’s racism,” commented human rights groups in a number of separate statements. “Incitement by Israeli media played a large role in the sacking of the cardiologist.”
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