An Israeli military commando dressed in civilian clothes killed three Palestinians this Tuesday in a hospital in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank. as announced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israel claimed the murder, stating in a statement that they were “terrorists” from the Palestinian Hamas movement.
The Palestinian ministry in Ramallah assured that “this morning three young people were martyred by the bullets of the occupation forces (Israel) who entered the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin and shot them.”
The director of the medical center, Naji Nazzal, told AFP that “a group of Israeli soldiers dressed in civilian clothes entered” the hospital and “murdered” the three men using firearms with silencers.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency, for its part, identified the men as Muhammad Jalamnah, Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi and Basel Ayman Ghazawi.
“The operation was performed in the rehabilitation wing of the hospital where Basel Ghazawi was receiving treatment since October 25,” said the director, adding that the man was paralyzed.
According to details published in Hebrew and Palestinian media, For the operation, which was carried out in less than 10 minutes, Israeli soldiers infiltrated the hospital dressed as doctors, nurses and Palestinian women, They went to the third floor where the militants were and killed the three Palestinians while they slept with pistols equipped with silencers.
Jalamnah, 27, was the target of this joint operation by the Army, the Border Police and the Shin Bet, who would have transferred weapons and ammunition to other militiamen to “promote shooting attacks and was planning an attack inspired by the massacre of October 7.”
He had been residing for some time in the Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of the militia movement in the West Bank. He maintained contact with the Hamas leadership abroad and had even been injured in a failed car bomb attempt, a military spokesman said.
According to the Israeli army, Jalamnah was involved in “significant terrorist activity” and was known for distributing weapons and ammunition for shootings.
“Jalamnah was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the immediate future and was using the
hospital as a hideout and was therefore neutralized,” the army added.
Along with Jalamnah, the Ghazawi brothers, linked to the Islamic Jihad, were hiding inside the hospital. born in the Jenin refugee camp, and involved in “terrorist activity” in the area, according to Israeli information.
The three were part of the Jenin Brigade, born two years ago in the refugee camp to bring together all the militias in the area regardless of their ideological affiliation.
Mohamed Ghazawi was involved in “numerous attacks, including shooting at Israeli soldiers,” while Basel, is also involved in “terrorist activity” in the area, according to the military statement.
“For a long time, wanted suspects have hidden in hospitals and used them as a base to plan terrorist activities and carry out attacks, assuming that the exploitation of the hospitals will serve as protection from the counter-terrorist activity of the Israeli security forces,” noted the Army.
“This is another example of the cynical use of civilian areas and hospitals as shelters and human shields by terrorist organizations”added the Army, which in the Gaza Strip has also besieged and almost attacked its hospitals, alleging that Hamas members are hiding there.
For its part, the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) asked the UN, international institutions and human rights organizations to work to “end the series of daily crimes committed by the occupation against our people and health centers in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
“International law provides general and specific protection for civilian sites, including hospitals, in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention and the 1977 Geneva and 1954 Hague Conventions,” Sanidad argued.
AFP and EFE
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