Khalil Suleiman

Khalil Suleiman ( ) (1943/1944–4 March 2002) was a Palestinian doctor in Jenin in the West Bank . He was head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society Emergency Medical Service (effectively the ambulance service) in Jenin. He was killed and two other medical personnel seriously injured when an ambulance was hit by a rifle-mounted grenade fired by the Israeli Defence Forces . The International Red Cross and the European Union have both complained about this attack. The hospital in Jenin is now named after him, the Martyr Doctor Khalil Suleiman Hospital. His brothers son was named Khalil after his uncle. "Memorandum submitted by the European Commission: European Community financial assistance to the Palestinians" . The Red Crescent ambulance was attacked and destroyed by the IDF in Jenin on 4 March 2002, reportedly by a rifle-mounted grenade. Khalil Suleiman, was killed in the assault, while two other PRCS staff were seriously wounded and burned and remain in Hospital. The ambulance was one of 6 financed by ECHO (for PRCS through ICRC) with the project ECHO/TPS/210/2000/20001 dating back to October 2000. The ambulance had been delivered to PRCS in January 2001. Both the International Committee of the Red Cross and the EU have protested this attack, which is a grave breach of the IVth Geneva Convention.

Palestinian doctor Khalil Suleiman ( Arabic : خليل سليمان ) (1943/1944 – 4 March 2002) was a Palestinian doctor and the head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Emergency Medical Service in Jenin, Palestine . He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 2002 while traveling in an ambulance to rescue a wounded girl during the Second Intifada . The IDF stated that they fired on the ambulance because it was driving towards them at high speed, but eyewitnesses disputed this claim. A piece of the ambulance was included in the Jenin Horse , a monument constructed from scrap metal in 2003 and later dismantled by the IDF in 2023.