Israeli soldiers raided the Ibn Sina hospital in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Disguised as women or medical personnel, even carrying a folded wheelchair with one hand and an assault rifle with the other; The military shot dead three young Palestinians who, according to Israeli authorities, are militiamen. They are Mohamed Jalamneh, “a senior member of Hamas linked to major terrorist activity recently,” and the brothers Basil and Mohammad al Ghazawi, members of Islamic Jihad, according to Israel and Hamas has confirmed.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the death of the three Palestinians, one of them was receiving treatment for his wounds, and denounced a “new occupation massacre” inside the hospitals, since Israeli troops “broke into the Jenin hospital and “They carried out a shootout inside.” The Islamist group Hamas vowed to respond to the killings.
According to the Israeli military statement, the three men were part of a “terrorist cell, which was hiding in the Ibn Sina hospital and planned to carry out a terrorist attack in the immediate period.”
For the operation, which took less than ten minutes, Israeli soldiers infiltrated the hospital dressed as doctors, nurses and Palestinian women. According to the security camera recording, some even finished dressing up or covering their faces at the emergency reception, while they forced a man to kneel and cover his face so that he would not identify them. Afterwards, they went to the third floor where they killed the three Palestinians while they slept with pistols equipped with silencers, according to details published in Hebrew and Palestinian media.
Jalamneh, 27, was the target of this joint operation of 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 7 October”. He had been residing for some time in the Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of the militant movement in the West Bank, maintained contact with the Hamas leadership abroad and had even been injured in a failed car bomb attempt, a military spokesman said.
Along with Jalamneh, the Ghazawi brothers were hiding inside the hospital, linked to the Islamic Jihad, 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 Basil is also involved in “terrorist activity” in the area, according to the military statement.
Israel has long accused Hamas of using Gaza hospitals to hide men and weapons in underground tunnels and of using Palestinians as human shields. Hamas rejects the accusation. International law expressly prohibits attacking hospitals unless they are used to commit “acts harmful to the enemy.”
“The wanted suspects hide in hospitals and use 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 anti-terrorist activity of the Israeli security forces,” the Israeli military said. , which in the Gaza Strip has also besieged and attacked almost all of its hospitals.
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 the 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.
Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops continued to intensify their operations in the center of the enclave and parts of Khan Yunis further south. In these operations, Israel has killed 215 Palestinians and injured another 300 in the last 24 hours, according to the strip’s health authorities. And although Israel dismantled the Hamas command structure at the beginning of the month, in recent hours Palestinian fighters have infiltrated “previously cleared areas” of northern Gaza, according to the Institute for the Study of War. and the Critical Threats Project, as well as several witnesses. Fighting was heard around Al Shifa hospital, suggesting that the war was not going as planned by Israel.