Israeli hit squad raids West Bank hospital

Israeli special operatives dressed as medical staff and carrying a wheelchair and baby carrier as props kill three militants associated with Hamas | VIDEO

An undercover Israeli raid on a hospital in the northern West Bank killed three militants associated with Hamas in a fast-paced operation that lasted just 10 minutes.

Security camera video appears to show several Mista’aravim, Israeli agents specially trained to pose undercover as Palestinians, storming the Ibn Sina Hospital in the flashpoint city of Jenin on Tuesday morning.

Disguised as Muslim women, medical staff and hospital patients - including one agent in a wheelchair who suddenly jumps up with a weapon in his hand - the operatives entered the third floor of the hospital and shot three Palestinians using guns fitted with silencers, before making a speedy exit.

The Israeli army said the three dead men had been hiding in hospitals for a “long time” and were planning to “carry out a terror attack” that was set to echo the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel’s south in the imminent future.

It also alleged that one of those targeted had transferred weapons and ammunition for use in those planned attacks.

Israel often carries out night-time and early-morning raids on Jenin, known as a militant stronghold, resulting in arrests and clashes with locals. Agents often enter civilian institutions such as hospitals and the city’s densely populated refugee camp.

CCTV footage shows a deadly raid by undercover Israeli troops at the Ibn Sina hospital in the northern city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Since the October 7 massacres Israeli forces have upped their operations across the West Bank, killing at least 357 Palestinians in their search for Hamas members and arresting thousands of others. Such operations have left the city in a state of destruction where the governing Palestinian Authority has little clout.

The special operatives shot dead three Palestinian militants.

Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, said in a statement that the Israeli army’s “crimes will not go unanswered”, adding that the extrajudicial killings are a “continuation of the occupation’s ongoing crimes against our people from Gaza to Jenin”. It also claimed the three dead men as members and called the raid “a cowardly assassination”.

Those killed were named as Muhammad Jalamnah, 27; Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi, a militant from a local armed group; and his brother Basel Ayman Ghazawi from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another armed group that is also active in Gaza.

Basel Ghazawi had reportedly been in the hospital, being treated for injuries, since the end of October.

A bullet hole on a pillow covered in blood on a hospital bed at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin in the West Bank.

While arrests and clashes have happened in the vicinity of the Ibn Sina hospital before, the raid marked the first time that Israeli operatives carried out a targeted attack inside the functioning medical centre.

Israel has come under heavy criticism for raids on hospitals in Gaza, which are used as a shelter for citizens displaced by the war and have buckled under the weight of heavy fighting, mass casualties and a lack of basic resources including fuel and medicine. Israel says the militants use civilian spaces such as hospitals as cover for their activity.

The Times