Natalie Zangauker, the younger sister of Gaza hostage Matan Zangauker, was trampled by police during the weekly protest for the release of the hostages at the Kirya Bridge. In video footage online, protesters can be heard shouting “shame” and “you’ll end up in jail” at the policeman.
Zangauker was taken to Sourasky Medical Center due to her injuries, where she published a video saying: “Not even a police officer will stop me from protesting on behalf of Matan and the other hostages.”
On Motzei Shabbos, Israeli Police reported it arrested three people at protests in Tel Aviv who were blocking the road at the intersection between the intersection of Shaul Hamelech and Menachem Begin.
Police said that the protesters were given permission to protest at Kaplan Junction, but a group of protesters started moving towards the southbound side of the Ayalon Highway, protest at Kaplan Junction, which a group of protesters disobeyed. The police said the protesters moved towards Ayalon South, “risking human lives while the vehicles were moving at high speed on the road.”
The deputy director of Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus’s transplant department, Dr. Vladimir Tank, was arrested when he tried to help Natalie with her injuries.
The Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus and the Israel Medical Association have not responded to the arrest yet.
The medical director of the Hostage Families Forum, Prof. Hagai Levin, said: “[This was] a violent arrest of a person who has dedicated his whole life to saving lives. And this man is the ‘enemy’ of the Israel Police.”
Knesset Member Naama Lazimi responded to the incident saying: “Currently, the department director is abroad and if there is an emergency transplant, the deputy director is nowhere to be found! He is somewhere with the police but we don’t know which station he is at. I appealed to the health minister and his chief of staff to act immediately regarding this issue. The police’s decision has far-reaching consequences for the public’s peace and health.”
{Matzav.com}
