(JNi.media) The Doctors for Human Rights organization on Thursday protested the publication of a picture showing the 13-year-old boy Ahmed Manasra in his bed at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, after the stabbing attack he had launched in Jerusalem.
The organization said that the publication of a photograph of a minor without the permission of his parents is a breach of his legal right to privacy, and of medical ethics. The organization also stated it was disturbed by the fact that the picture had been distributed by a Government Press Office. Manasra was seriously injured after he was hit by a car when passersby began chasing him and his partner in terror after the stabbing.
In his short speech yesterday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas described the cold blooded execution of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, Ahmed Manasra, who had stabbed two Israelis in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood of Jerusalem, one of them, 13, critically. Abbas said his killing was but an example of the “summary execution of our children in cold blood” carried out by Israel.
So the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday released photos of Manasra recovering nicely in his Hadassah hospital bed, and Israeli officials announced the show refuted Abbas’s claim, and revealed the chairman’s tendency to incite his people to violence.
Israel also released to Arab media outlets a video of the attack in Pisgat Ze’ev, with Arabic subtitles, showing clearly the extent of the young man’s brutality and bloodlust, along with Manasra’s bedside photos.
Meanwhile, despite the affront to his privacy, Ahmed Manasra’s medical condition has improved and is now considered light-to-moderate, a Hadassah spokesperson said on Thursday.
The other assailant continued to flee until he ran into a Border Police unit, which ordered him to drop his knife. When he refused to do so and instead continued running toward them, they shot him to death.
