Health Minister Uriel Buso calls on the police to expedite the investigation into this evening’s murder of Dr. Abdallah Awad, a pediatrician who was working at the time at a Clalit Health Services clinic in Kafr Yasif, in Western Galilee.
“It is unthinkable that medical facilities, where lives are saved, should become places where patients or medical staff feel their lives are at risk,” Buso says.
Awad is the sixth Arab Israeli killed in a violent incident since last night.
“The unbearable violence and lawlessness have led to the deaths of six Israeli citizens in a single day,” adds Israel Medical Association Chairman Prof. Zion Hagay. “The state must wake up and put an end to this.”
He adds that the Israel Medical Association demands that the government puts “an end to the negligence that has characterized this recent period” and “increases personal security in the Arab sector.”
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