Joint List head summoned by cops over October ruction with far right MK

Police have summoned MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List party, to be questioned regarding his dustup with fellow MK Itamar Ben Gvir in a hospital hallway last year.

Odeh tussled with Ben Gvir, of the far right Otzma Yehudit faction in the Religious Zionism party, as the latter attempted to reach a Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner at Kaplan Medical Center in October.

Odeh had attempted to block Ben Gvir from passing as he visited Miqdad Qawasmeh, a Hamas terror group member being held without charge who was on a hunger strike at the time. Odeh was said to be visiting Qawasmeh to offer his support, while Ben Gvir was said to have come to complain that Qawasmeh was being treated in an Israeli hospital.

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Odeh was seen blocking Ben Gvir from passing, pushing him and telling him “You’re a little terrorist, you won’t get in, go away.”

Ben Gvir, who said he would file a police complaint at the time, says the police action against Odeh is “too little, too late.”

He accuses the police and prosecution of treating Odeh with “kid gloves.”