Seventy-Years-Old Abu Hassan was Visiting His Daughter When an Israeli Bullet Penetrated his Neck

February 19, 2001

The 70-years-old Abdallah Juda (Abu Hassan), Rafah citizen, was the victim of the Israeli attack against Khan Yunis last Monday. Abu Hassan was immediately transferred to Nasir Hospital at Khan Yunis camp and underwent an emergency surgery. Abu Hassan said that he was injured severely while he was visiting his daughter in Khan Yunis.

While he was sitting, with the members of his daughter's family, an Israeli bullet penetrated the window of the room and stayed in his neck. A Member of Abu Hassan's family asserted that Abu Hassan fell down while he was sitting in the room with his family members. He said that they did not know the cause of the fall at that time. They immediately transferred Abu Hassan to Nasir Hospital at Khan Younis camp. Due to his very unstable dangerous state condition, doctors of Nasir Hospital decided to transfer Abu Hassan to A-Shefa Hospital for an emergency surgery.

His grandson, who accompanied him to Al-Shefa Hospital, asserted that the Israeli soldiers retarded moving the ambulance and that they insulted the Medical Staff who accompanied the injured to the Hospital. His grandson added that the Israeli soldiers even did not take his grandfather's old age into consideration and that they responded not to any of the family's members' attempts to save the old man's life. When Abu Hassan arrived to Al-Shefa Hospital, he was entered to the Intensive Care Unit and was operated on immediately, which lasted for three hours and was supervised by different-major doctors.

Medical resources at Al-Shefa Hospital confirmed that Abu Hassan was shot at the second vertebral of his neck. The injury caused hemiplegia at the right part of his body. Same resources added that Abu Hassan is in stable situation and that he still needs a long period of treatment.