Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian hospital within the occupied West Financial institution early Tuesday morning, killing three militants, together with a commander in Hamas, based on the Israeli army and Palestinian officers.
The highest Palestinian well being official in Jenin, Wisam Sbeihat, stated that Israeli forces had entered Ibn Sina Specialised Hospital within the northern West Financial institution metropolis of Jenin wearing civilian garments and carrying weapons. They then went to the room the place the Hamas commander, Mohammad Jalamneh, 27, was staying with two associates, and shot all three lifeless, Mr. Sbeihat stated.
Surveillance video launched by the Palestinian Authority Well being Ministry on Tuesday exhibits a number of gunmen in obvious civilian garb — together with one wearing a white medical coat and one other in blue scrubs — strolling by means of the hospital halls, brandishing weapons.
“They assassinated these three individuals, together with a affected person,” Dr. Sbeihat stated in a cellphone interview, including that the Israeli forces additionally arrested two Palestinian medical employees.
In a press release, Hamas mourned Mr. Jalamneh as a frontrunner within the Al-Qassam Brigades, the Palestinian faction’s armed wing. A neighborhood militia affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed his companions — Mohammad and Basil Ghazawi — as members.
The Israeli army stated all three had been concerned in militant exercise, together with assaults in opposition to Israelis. Mr. Jalamneh had additionally been planning “to hold out a terror assault within the instant future and used the hospital as a hiding place,” the army stated.
One of many males accompanying him, Basil Ghazawi, was being handled within the hospital’s rehabilitation ward, Mr. Sbeihat stated. The Israeli army stated that he and his brother, Mohammed Ghazawi, had “hid contained in the hospital.”
Surging violence within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, the place hundreds of thousands of Palestinians reside underneath Israeli army rule, has prompted fears of one other entrance within the Center East disaster spiraling out of Israel’s warfare in opposition to Hamas in Gaza. For the reason that warfare in Gaza started, at the very least 367 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troopers and civilians within the West Financial institution and East Jerusalem, the best toll in years, the United Nations stated on Monday.
Israel has escalated its makes an attempt to crack down on Palestinian militant exercise within the West Financial institution since Hamas’s shock Oct. 7 assault on Israel prompted full-blown warfare. Greater than 2,960 Palestinians have been arrested because the starting of the warfare in near-daily raids, based on the Israeli army.
