Only few hours had passed since the Palestinian paramedic Yousuf Deiriya 40 returned home after a busy day of work in the bloody clashes that erupted on Thursday south of Nablus city when the Israeli soldiers raided his house arrested him and confiscated his ambulance.
Deiriya is a well-known paramedic in the southern areas of Nablus who never complains but responds to every call to transfer patients or those injured in traffic accidents his nephew who is also an activist Islam Deiriya told the PIC reporter.
Deiriya was the main witness to the crime in which an Israeli settler shot the Palestinian youth Mu’taz Bani Shamsa from Beita town and the photojournalist Majdi Ishtiyeh at the entrance of Huwara town to the south of Nablus which led to killing Bani Shamsa.
The Israeli occupation forces accused Deiriya of intercepting the car of the settler who killed Bani Shamsa. Deiriya’s family denied this categorically and affirmed that he stopped the ambulance to inspect it after being hit by the settler’s car.
Islam Deiriya said that his uncle Yousuf has been using this ambulance which belongs to the Aqraba Municipality for a year and a half and that he previously worked as a municipal employee and a worker in a factory.
The captive paramedic has two daughters and 3 sons and he was arrested 10 years ago for 3 years and was arrested again for several days while accompanying foreign volunteers in Khirbat al-Tawil to the east of Nablus.
Islam told the PIC reporter that his uncle is “a man of difficult missions” who does not fear the settlers’ terrorism and who always remains on the front line to save the lives of the Palestinian protesters. “He does not care about the bullets even if they hit his car. He only cares about performing his professional and national duty to the fullest” he added.
Yousuf Deiriya was interviewed by many media outlets on Thursday to talk in detail about the Huwara incidents which aroused the anger of the Israeli occupation forces that later arrested him according to his family.
