Another welcome outbreak of common sense policing (video of the arrest is on social media, apparently)
An NHS doctor who appeared to celebrate the Hamas Oct 7 attack on Israel has been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a junior medic training to be a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, told police “you are doing this for the Israeli Jewish lobby” as she was arrested in South Gloucestershire on Tuesday morning.
In a video shared on social media, the doctor is told she is under arrest for three alleged offences relating to malicious communications and one for inciting racial hatred.
A police officer says: “On 7th October, you posted a variety of communications which demonstrated support for Hamas’ attack on Israel. An attack which involved murder, rape and kidnap of Israeli citizens, all of which may be considered grossly offensive in character.”
Dr Aladwan is told she is also accused of giving a speech calling for the eradication of Israel at a pro-Palestine protest outside the Foreign Office on July 21.
“You are doing this for the Israeli Jewish lobby so you can get an arrest on me before my tribunal on Thursday,” she appears to say in the video, adding: “This is what the UK does to their doctors.”
Dr Aladwan marked the second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel with social media posts appearing to glorify “the day ‘Israel’ was humiliated”.
Palestinian fighters murdered more than 1,200 people and took a further 251 hostages during the atrocities.
The General Medical Council (GMC) launched a fitness to practise investigation following the posts. It then referred Dr Aladwan to an Interim Orders Tribunal, which took place on Sept 25 at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), arguing there should be restrictions on her registration.
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