Jerusalem, October 30 (RHC)-- For a third day in a row, Israeli forces have raided an East Jerusalem hospital that has refused to give them information on treated Palestinians.

Thursday saw the Israeli forces striking terror among the medical staff by using rubber-coated steel bullets, smoke grenades, and sound bombs against the compound of the al-Makassed Hospital in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur.

The staff where observing a sit-in at the time of the attack with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross in protest at the move by the Israeli forces to try to obtain the medical files on the patients who sustained injuries during clashes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

"It is not our job to give any information about anyone who comes to the hospital or to take any personal information. Our job is only to help them and provide them with medical treatment," the director general of the hospital, Rafis al-Hussieni, told the Palestinian Ma'an news agency.