An Israel-based human rights group has shared video described as showing Israeli armed police raiding a hospital in East Jerusalem on July 21 and clashing with hospital staff as they attempted to seize a critically injured Palestinian man.

According to both B’TSelem, the human rights group that released this hospital security camera footage on August 13, and Amnesty International, the Palestinian man had been critically injured in clashes in East Jerusalem in mid-July, and died during the scuffle between hospital staff and police.

B’TSelem, the human rights group that released this hospital security camera footage, said the injured man was on his way to surgery when police tried to seize him. The footage the group shared shows a commotion in a hospital corridor. Police officers trying to grab hold of the man’s bed appear to push and shove al-Makassed hospital staff protecting him.

Amnesty International in late July reported that armed Israeli police had carried out violent raids on the hospital on July 17 and July 21.

“The conduct of Israeli forces who carried out violent raids on al-Makassed hospital harassing and intimidating staff and patients is utterly deplorable. There can be no justification for preventing medical workers from caring for a critically wounded patient,” said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Credit: YouTube/BT’Selem