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 navy 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 mates, and shot all three useless, Mr. Sbeihat stated.
Surveillance video launched by the Palestinian Authority Well being Ministry on Tuesday reveals a number of gunmen in obvious civilian garb — together with one wearing a white medical coat and one other in blue scrubs — strolling by way of the hospital halls, brandishing weapons.
“They assassinated these three folks, together with a affected person,” Dr. Sbeihat stated in a telephone interview, including that the Israeli forces additionally arrested two Palestinian medical employees.
In a press release, Hamas mourned Mr. Jalamneh as a pacesetter within the Al-Qassam Brigades, the Palestinian faction’s armed wing. An area militia affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed his companions — Mohammad and Basil Ghazawi — as members.
The Israeli navy stated all three had been concerned in militant exercise, together with assaults towards Israelis. Mr. Jalamneh had additionally been planning “to hold out a terror assault within the quick future and used the hospital as a hiding place,” the navy stated.
One of many males accompanying him, Basil Ghazawi, was being handled within the hospital’s rehabilitation ward, Mr. Sbeihat stated. The Israeli navy 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 below Israeli navy rule, has prompted fears of one other entrance within the Center East disaster spiraling out of Israel’s battle towards Hamas in Gaza. For the reason that battle in Gaza started, at the least 367 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troopers and civilians within the West Financial institution and East Jerusalem, the very 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 battle. Greater than 2,960 Palestinians have been arrested for the reason that starting of the battle in near-daily raids, based on the Israeli navy.
