Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who is ill with the coronavirus, was evacuated from his home to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on Sunday.
The Palestinian Authority made a special request from Israel for Erekat to be treated in an Israeli hospital.
Magen David Adom, escorted by IDF soldiers, carried out the transfer from his home in the Palestinian city of Yericho. Erekat, 65, who has underlying medical issues, was diagnosed with the coronavirus two weeks ago and his condition took a turn for the worse recently.
He had a lung transplant three years ago in the US due to suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, which leads to scarring of the lungs. He also suffered a heart attack in 2012.
“The fact that we provide humanitarian medical care to our enemies without demanding and accepting humanitarian reciprocity in the form of returning the bodies of Hadar [Goldin] and Oron [Shaul] and the release of civilians held captive by Hamas is immoral and illogical,” Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich stated in response to the report. “And is there no difference between Gaza and Ramallah regarding this.”
In 2015, Erekat paid a condolence visit to the family of a terrorist, a member of PA intelligence, who carried out a shooting attack on soldiers. In 2010, he wrote a letter of praise for Ahmad Sadaat, the terrorist who planned the murder of former MK Rechaven Ze’evi, H’yd, according to a report by Arutz Sheva.
Erekat was one of the main architects of the Olso peace accords and has been the PLO’s chief negotiator since 1995 and is still considered the most senior figure in Palestinian negotiations with Israel, especially to the international arena. He serves as a senior adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas and in the past served as an adviser to Abbas’ predecessor Yasser Arafat.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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We should listen to what Torah says: “He Who is Compassionate to the Cruel Will Ultimately Become Cruel to the Compassionate”
Let him rot!!!
can’t wait for him to join his mentor, Arafat…
“Ba’asher hee shom” now he’s sick, vulnerable and desperate.
let him die in angony in a hospital in Ramallah or nabulus…..
why do Jews have to help him live? Idiots!
“Ba’asher hu shom” now he’s sick, vulnerable and desperate… and still a Rotzeach, Rasha and Sonei Yisroel.
The potential fallout from this magnanimous gesture is quite terrifying. His prognosis is bleak, yet the Israelis bring him to their hospitals, spend thousands on what is most likely VIP care. If he doesn’t make it, who will be blamed? Yup. The Israeli government. Remember the conspiracy theories how Israel poisoned Arafat yimach shemo? Well, this is going to be a repeat. Let him be cared for by his Palestinian landless in the hospitals they could have built with the billions poured in from their friends in Europe and the Middle East. Oops. Forgot. That money for humanitarian purposes is lining some private Palestinian stashes…
They knife shut and bomb our people
But we give them precious life saving treatment why? Are they friendly or at war
That’s shoot
makes me sick this guy
Loz di hint peigeren!
The psak in the poskim is that we are forced to treat a rasha like this to prevent aiva/hatered.
All the tough guys here should learn some halacha instead of trash talking.