Bereaved father Herzi Hajaj, whose daughter Shir was murdered in a 2017 ramming attack, protested on Wednesday morning against the hospitalization of a Nukhba terrorist at Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Hajaj was blocked by Border Police officers, but the activists who were with him said that even though the officers blocked his entry to the department, they treated him with respect.
Shiran Mirzai, a member of the Maaleh Adumim Council, organized the protest at the hospital, and the protesters are expected to return to hold an additional protest on Wednesday evening.
"I received the information that the terrorist was hospitalized from a hospital employee," she told Arutz Sheva - Israel National News. "I immediately passed the information to the various groups which I run in Maaleh Adumim, and many expressed a desire to come and protest. I was moved to see my friend, Herzl Hajaj, arrive to express his protest and cries. Herzl, who lost his daughter Shir in a terror attack in Armon Hanatziv in 2017, is expressing the cries of us all."
A Hadassah spokesperson said, "Every security prisoner treated in a hospital in Israel is brought by the responsibility and decision of the Health Ministry, security forces, or army. Hadassah is not updated on the details of any prisoner's arrest or circumstances, and certainly does not have anything to do with the decision regarding where he will be treated."