The Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai al-Kaila, condemned the Israeli occupation's aggression against Beit Jala Governmental Hospital and its firing of gas bombs in its yards, which endangered the lives of patients, especially children and the elderly.

Al-Kaila added, in a statement, that the occupation army deliberately fired gas canisters in the hospital yards, causing many patients and their companions to suffocate.

And she added that the medical staff in the hospital closed the first floor in the hospital in order to preserve the patients until the occupation withdrew from the hospital’s vicinity.

The Minister of Health called on the international community, international legal organizations and human rights organizations to put pressure on the occupying power to stop its aggression against our people and the health and medical institutions that international law stipulates to protect.