Football ultras raid Israeli hospitals in search of Hamas patients

La Familia ultras are accused of brutal attacks on Arabs. Photo: Twitter

Far-right Israeli football ultras attack Tel Aviv hospital searching for captured Hamas terrorist who is reportedly being treated at the facility.

Video shows a group of 150 people entering at Sheba Medical Center on Wednesday evening before being pushed back by police and hospital security. . Some appear to have been hospitalized.

La Familia ultras, linked to the Beitar Jerusalem football club, are accused of violent attacks on Arabs and protesters who have organized past demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The incident occurred after Israeli news broke . I24 reported that three Hamas terrorists are being treated in hospitals across Israel after the group's attack over the weekend.

That fueled speculation that one of the three was a patient at Sheba Medical Center, where many people were being treated.

In response to the report, which prompted warnings from authorities about the risk of lynching, Moshe Arbel, the health minister, issued a directive to hospitals not to treat wounded Hamas terrorists.

“The problem of treating damned and despicable Hamas terrorists in public hospitals has caused enormous difficulties. health care system,” he said.

According to local residents, Hamas members who were treated in government facilities have since been transferred to medical facilities run by the security forces. Media.

Reporters at Sheba Medical Center reported that a Hamas terrorist who was allegedly being treated there had been moved before La Familia ultras arrived on the scene.

The hospital was one of the main facilities treating those wounded in the weekend attack that killed more than 1,300 Israelis. About 3,300 people were injured in the attack, some of them still in critical condition.

Serious injuries

On Tuesday, a Sheba Medical Center spokesman said the hospital was operating at 90 percent of its capacity. amid an influx of patients.

Steve Walz told reporters: “It's hard to look at the patients' faces. We have many seriously wounded. They are seriously injured.”

Israeli forces said the bodies of more than 1,500 Hamas terrorists have been found in Israel to date.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip, which Israel has been relentlessly bombing since the attack on weekends, there are more than 1,400 people. At least 6,200 more people were injured, according to Gaza's health ministry.

As part of a «total siege» of the coastal enclave, Israeli forces cut off fuel, water and electricity supplies in preparation. for the expected large-scale ground offensive in this area.