The Israel Police today (Friday) arrested three suspects in two different attacks by medical staff.
Two suspects are residents of Abu Sanan, and another 48-year-old suspect is a resident of East Jerusalem.
The two incidents are similar, the resuscitation operations of their associates were unsuccessful and the families rioted in the hospitals and were violent towards the medical staff.
As mentioned, early this morning, two suspects from the village of Abu Sanan, Melham Hamdoni and Ahmad Fa'ur, who are suspected of attacking the medical staff and security guards at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, were arrested.
Today, their detention was extended in the Magistrate's Court in Haifa.
The two suspects, residents of the village of Abu Sanan, are suspected of attacking the medical staff and security guards at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
The suspect Hamdoni's detention was extended until next Monday and Fa'ur's detention was extended until Sunday.
As you may recall, two days ago he was killed in a car accident on Route 70 near the village of Yassif Firas Hamdoni from the village, the medical staff performed unsuccessful resuscitation operations on him, after the medical staff informed the family of his death the family members rioted and injured a security guard.
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Advocate Anan Aliyan, who represents the suspects, told Israel Today: "The detention of a suspect has been extended until Sunday and another suspect until Monday. According to the police, they are looking for more suspects in the assault and the fact that they are from the same village.
At the end of the detention extension hearing, Judge Rami Nasser of the Haifa Magistrate's Court said that "Israeli society is dead."
A few hours later, the Israeli police arrested a suspect, a resident of East Jerusalem, on suspicion of involvement in a violent assault by a medical staff at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem at the beginning of about a week.
Recall, earlier this week, the medical staff informed the family that their associate had died and the family began to riot and attack staff members at the hospital.
Many police forces were called to the scene and an investigation was opened at the Shalem station in the Jerusalem district.
Violent incident at Hadassah Hospital // Photo: Hadassah Spokeswoman
According to the police statement, the investigation of the circumstances of the incident revealed that family members of a resident of the east of the city who died at the hospital (this is due to an overdose he took), arrived at the scene and started rioting, causing damage and attacking medical staff.
A suspect (48), a resident of East Jerusalem, was recently located, and he was arrested, taken for questioning and brought to court today for a hearing on extending his detention.
The police said in response that "the investigation of the case is still ongoing and various actions are being taken to locate other people involved. We take violence of any kind seriously and in particular against medical teams working to save lives. We will continue to act resolutely in cases of violence in society Those involved. "
1,675 cases of violence in hospitals since the beginning of the year
Physical violence against medical staff - almost every day: Since the beginning of the year, there have been 110 cases of assault and physical violence against medical staff, and 1,675 cases of verbal violence, threats or damage to property.
This means that each day since the beginning of the year there were an average of 12.5 cases of verbal violence and 0.8 cases of physical assault.
This is according to data from the Ministry of Health, at the request of "Israel Today".
Data from the past three years show that in 2019 there were 333 cases of physical and assault violence against medical staff and security guards, and 6,015 cases of verbal violence, threats and causing harm.
The eruption of the corona in 2020 did not lead to a significant change in trend: 306 cases of physical assault and 5,616 cases of verbal violence, threats and property damage were recorded this year.
In 2021 there were 313 cases of physical assault and 6,505 cases of verbal violence, threats and property damage.
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