Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian hospital within the occupied West Financial institution early Tuesday morning, killing three militants, together with a commander in Hamas, in accordance with the Israeli navy and Palestinian officers.
The highest Palestinian well being official in Jenin, Wisam Sbeihat, mentioned 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 mentioned.
Surveillance video released 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 mentioned in a telephone interview, including that the Israeli forces additionally arrested two Palestinian medical employees.
In an announcement, 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 navy mentioned 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 rapid future and used the hospital as a hiding place,” the navy mentioned.
One of many males accompanying him, Basil Ghazawi, was being handled within the hospital’s rehabilitation ward, Mr. Sbeihat mentioned. The Israeli navy mentioned that he and his brother, Mohammed Ghazawi, had “hid contained in the hospital.”
Surging violence within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, the place thousands and thousands of Palestinians reside beneath Israeli navy rule, has prompted fears of one other entrance within the Center East disaster spiraling out of Israel’s struggle in opposition to Hamas in Gaza. For the reason that struggle in Gaza started, no less than 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 mentioned 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 struggle. Greater than 2,960 Palestinians have been arrested for the reason that starting of the struggle in near-daily raids, in accordance with the Israeli navy.
