In rare move, joint operation sees wounded Palestinian helicoptered to Hadassah hospital; IDF investigating live fire claim.
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In an unusual joint Israeli-Palestinian operation, a victim of the violence outside the West Bank village Kusra, was sent by helicopter from the outskirts of Nablus to Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Karem hospital for treatment on Sunday evening.
The IDF is investigating the possibility that Halmi Abed Elaziz Sadek Hasan, 27, was one of two Palestinians who were shot with live ammunition by Israeli civilians, during Saturday's clashes between area settlers, Palestinians and Israeli security forces. A third Palestinian was injured by a rubber bullet from Israeli security forces.
Hasan, 27, was hit in the stomach, rushed to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where he was operated on Saturday.
But as his situation deteriorated on Sunday, Palestinian health officials worked with the civil administration to send him to Hadassah Ein Karem.
The IDF, however, could not enter the city for the medical transfer, nor could an Israeli helicopter fly into the city. So physician Micha Shamir from Hadassah Ein Karem said that he and paramedic Moshe Salah, entered Nablus to retrieve Hasan.
"From time to time we get patients from the Palestinian Authority," he said. "What is unusual is that we went inside [Palestinian territory] to take him out," Shamir said.
Representative from the Palestinian authority met them at the entrance to the city, Shamir said. They placed the transport monitors and other equipment in a PA vehicle and were driven to the hospital, he said.
Everyone was very polite, he said.
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In an unusual joint Israeli-Palestinian operation, a victim of the violence outside the West Bank village Kusra, was sent by helicopter from the outskirts of Nablus to Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Karem hospital for treatment on Sunday evening.
The IDF is investigating the possibility that Halmi Abed Elaziz Sadek Hasan, 27, was one of two Palestinians who were shot with live ammunition by Israeli civilians, during Saturday's clashes between area settlers, Palestinians and Israeli security forces. A third Palestinian was injured by a rubber bullet from Israeli security forces.
Hasan, 27, was hit in the stomach, rushed to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where he was operated on Saturday.
But as his situation deteriorated on Sunday, Palestinian health officials worked with the civil administration to send him to Hadassah Ein Karem.
The IDF, however, could not enter the city for the medical transfer, nor could an Israeli helicopter fly into the city. So physician Micha Shamir from Hadassah Ein Karem said that he and paramedic Moshe Salah, entered Nablus to retrieve Hasan.
"From time to time we get patients from the Palestinian Authority," he said. "What is unusual is that we went inside [Palestinian territory] to take him out," Shamir said.
Representative from the Palestinian authority met them at the entrance to the city, Shamir said. They placed the transport monitors and other equipment in a PA vehicle and were driven to the hospital, he said.
Everyone was very polite, he said.
Israeli-Palestinian cooperation a... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics
