Khalil_Suleiman

Khalil Suleiman

Khalil Suleiman

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Khalil Suleiman (Arabic: خليل سليمان) (1943/1944–4 March 2002) was a Palestinian doctor in Jenin in the West Bank. He was head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society Emergency Medical Service (effectively the ambulance service) in Jenin.

He was killed and two other medical personnel seriously injured when an ambulance was hit by a rifle-mounted grenade fired by the Israeli Defence Forces.

The International Red Cross and the European Union have both complained about this attack.[1][2]

The hospital in Jenin is now named after him, the Martyr Doctor Khalil Suleiman Hospital. His brothers son was named Khalil after his uncle.

References

  1. [1]
    "Palestine Red Crescent official killed". International Committee of the Red Cross. 4 March 2002.
  2. [2]
    "Memorandum submitted by the European Commission: European Community financial assistance to the Palestinians". UK Parliament. The Red Crescent ambulance was attacked and destroyed by the IDF in Jenin on 4 March 2002, reportedly by a rifle-mounted grenade. The Head of the Red Crescent Emergency Service in Jenin, Dr. Khalil Suleiman, was killed in the assault, while two other PRCS staff were seriously wounded and burned and remain in Hospital. The ambulance was one of 6 financed by ECHO (for PRCS through ICRC) with the project ECHO/TPS/210/2000/20001 dating back to October 2000. The ambulance had been delivered to PRCS in January 2001. Both the International Committee of the Red Cross and the EU have protested this attack, which is a grave breach of the IVth Geneva Convention.


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