Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian hospital within the occupied West Bank early Tuesday morning, killing three militants, together with a commander in Hamas, in keeping with the Israeli army and Palestinian officers.
The prime Palestinian well being official in Jenin, Wisam Sbeihat, mentioned that Israeli forces had entered Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital within the northern West Bank 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 pals, and shot all three lifeless, Mr. Sbeihat mentioned.
Surveillance video launched by the Palestinian Authority Health 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 via the hospital halls, brandishing weapons.
“They assassinated these three people, including a patient,” Dr. Sbeihat mentioned in a cellphone interview, including that the Israeli forces additionally arrested two Palestinian medical staff.
In a press release, Hamas mourned Mr. Jalamneh as a frontrunner 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 army mentioned all three had been concerned in militant exercise, together with assaults towards Israelis. Mr. Jalamneh had additionally been planning “to carry out a terror attack in the immediate future and used the hospital as a hiding place,” the army mentioned.
One of the lads accompanying him, Basil Ghazawi, was being handled within the hospital’s rehabilitation ward, Mr. Sbeihat mentioned. The Israeli army mentioned that he and his brother, Mohammed Ghazawi, had “hid inside the hospital.”
Surging violence within the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the place thousands and thousands of Palestinians reside beneath Israeli army rule, has prompted fears of one other entrance within the Middle East disaster spiraling out of Israel’s battle towards Hamas in Gaza. Since the battle in Gaza started, a minimum of 367 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troopers and civilians within the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the best toll in years, the United Nations mentioned on Monday.
Israel has escalated its makes an attempt to crack down on Palestinian militant exercise within the West Bank since Hamas’s shock Oct. 7 assault on Israel prompted full-blown battle. More than 2,960 Palestinians have been arrested for the reason that starting of the battle in near-daily raids, in keeping with the Israeli army.
