Israeli commandos wear disguises in West Bank hospital raid

Israeli forces have pulled off a deadly raid in a West Bank hospital while disguised as medics and Muslim women.

Shocking footage shows the moment Israeli agents stormed a hospital and killed alleged militants while disguised as medical staff and Muslim women.

CCTV footage shows how multiple armed men and women pulled off the operation using elaborate props.

One soldier was pushing a wheelchair and another was carrying a baby seat.

Others were dressed as Muslim women, complete with headscarves.

CCTV footage undercover Israeli troops moving through wards at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin. Picture: UGC/AFP

The soldiers were disguised during the operation. Picture: UGC/AFP

They successfully managed to lull people into a false sense of security at the Ibn Sina hospital in the northern city of Jenin, West Bank.

Three men, Muhammad Jalamnah, Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi and Basel Ayman Ghazawi, were shot dead, with the soldiers using silencers.

The Israeli army alleged that the men were Hamas militants.

Undercover Israeli agents, some disguised as medical staff and Muslim women.

A wheelchair was used as a prop by the soldiers. Picture: UGC/AFP

The aftermath of the raid, the first of its type in eight years, was gruesome.

An AFP photographer saw a bullet hole on a pillow covered in blood.

The Israeli military said forces entered the hospital, a major health facility serving Jenin city and its adjacent refugee camp, to target a “Hamas terrorist cell”.

Announcing the killing by Israeli forces of three people inside the hospital, the Palestinian health ministry stressed that healthcare facilities were granted special protection under international law.

A bullet hole is pictured on a pillow covered in blood on a hospital bed at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Picture: Zain JAAFAR/AFP

A man films blood stains on a mattress and chair in the hospital after the killings. Picture: Zain JAAFAR/AFP

“The minister of health calls urgently on the United Nations General Assembly, international institutions and human rights organisations to end the daily string of crimes committed by the occupation (Israel) against our people and health centres,” a ministry statement said.

Hospital director Naji Nazzal told AFP that “a group of Israeli forces entered the facility undercover and assassinated the men”.

They used weapons fitted with silencers, he said.

Inside the hospital, the AFP photographer saw blood soaked into a mat and a chair, and spattered across a wall.

“The operation was carried out at the hospital’s rehabilitation ward where Basel Ghazawi had been undergoing treatment,” the hospital’s director said.

The West Bank has been held under Israeli military occupation since the Six-Day War in 1967.

Mourners carry the body of one of the Ghazawi brothers, who were among three Palestinian men who were killed when undercover Israeli agents raided the hospital. Picture: Zain JAAFAR/AFP

A man holds up an assault rifle as relatives mourn during the funeral of the two Ghazawi brothers. Picture: Zain JAAFAR/AFP

The mother of Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi and Basel Ayman Ghazawi. Picture: Zain JAAFAR/AFP

Palestinians ‘hiding’ in hospital

The Israeli army charged that Jalamnah was a “terrorist” with the militant group Hamas hiding in the hospital. Two other “terrorists” who were also hiding inside were “neutralised” along with him, it claimed. Jalamnah was involved in “significant terrorist activity” and was known for distributing weapons and ammunition for use in shootings, the army added.

It said he had been “inspired” by the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants in Gaza, that resulted in about 1140 deaths, mostly civilians, in southern Israel, according to an AFP tally of official figures.

A medic stands near a bloodied chair at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin. Picture: Zain JAAFAR/AFP

He “planned to carry out a terror attack in the immediate future and used the hospital as a hiding place and therefore was neutralised,” it added.

Israel has stepped up its incursions into Palestinian towns ands cities since October 7.

Jenin has been the focus of repeated Israeli raids, in which the army has demolished homes and ripped up streets as well as carrying out air strikes.

While Palestinians frequently accuse Israeli troops of preventing paramedics from reaching those wounded in incursions, deadly raids inside hospitals are rare.

The last one happened on November 12, 2015, when undercover agents pretending to bring in a pregnant woman raided a hospital in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

They detained a Palestinian accused of a stabbing and killed his cousin inside Al-Ahli Hospital.

Since the October 7 attacks triggered war between Israel and Hamas, more than 370 people have been killed by Israeli troops and settlers in the West Bank, according to the health ministry in Ramallah.