The Israeli army breaking into a Palestinian medical clinic in the occupied West Bank and destroying its contents was “a brutal act,” the Palestinian health minister has said, TRT World reports.

In a statement, Mai Alkaila said the Israeli army raided the medical clinic in the village of Al Rashaida, east of Bethlehem, in the northern West Bank, destroying its contents and smashing patient records in the clinic.

The clinic serves more than 3,000 people, she noted, and provides its services to rural areas and to people living in areas isolated by the Israeli segregation wall in the occupied West Bank.

Alkaila added that her ministry sent letters to the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross protesting the Israeli assault.