A report issued by Physicians for Human Rights, dealing with the medical treatment given to eight Arab terrorists who had been shot in Jerusalem, reveals that the wounded terrorists lay down an average of 47 minutes before medics were given permission to treat them. According to the report, the medics in question arrived at the scenes on average with 3.5 minutes of the call. Following complaints from the Palestinian Red Crescent, PHR launched four complaints to Police IA and for more to the Military Police, in those eight cases. All eight terrorists were shot by police officers and IDF soldiers in Jerusalem during the recent wave of terror.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel had an annual budget of roughly $3,775,000 in 2014, which, according to NGO Watch, came primarily from donors in Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, the European Union, and the UN. In 2008-2013, PHR-I received $1,090,553 from The New Israel Fund (NIF).
In 2015, PHR-I published “Gaza, 2014: Findings of an independent medical fact-finding mission,” alleging Israeli violations of human rights and international legal norms during the 2014 Gaza War, but providing absolutely no proof or evidence for these serious charges.
The new PHR-I report claims that IDF and police forces prevented the access of Red Crescent paramedics to the injured terrorists for “a long time.” The RC claimed that Israeli security forces regularly block their EMT units’ access, providing access to the terrorists to MDA units instead.
The cases in the report include three terrorist attempts in eastern Jerusalem, two attempts in Qalandiya, and three injured rioters in Al-Bireh and Al-Fajar, near Bethlehem. The report notes with the greatest emphasis the case of a female terrorist who tried to stab soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint and was shot. According to the report, RC paramedics testified that they had attempted to approach the shot terrorist but were ordered by Police to leave. Only an hour and fifty minutes after the shooting was an MDA team allowed to rush her to the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, in critical condition.
The IDF Spokesperson said that medical teams are instructed to provide immediate care as well as evacuation to hospital as soon as possible, subject to the existing threats and the need to maintain the safety of security forces in the area.
The Police Spokesperson said that police protocol requires an examination of the injured terrorist by sappers to verify that no weapons or explosives are present on his or her person.