Israeli secret troops and doctors dressed as women storm West Bank hospital, kill 3 -(WIW)

Israeli secret troops and doctors dressed as women storm West Bank hospital, kill 3

Israeli armed forces and medical workers disguised as women stormed a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic attack that highlighted the spread. of the virus. of the situation. Deadly violence in the region during the Gaza war.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Israeli forces opened fire on the wards of the Ibn Sina Hospital in the city of Jenin. The ministry condemned the attack and called on the international community to put pressure on the Israeli army to stop such operations in hospitals. A hospital spokesman said there was no exchange of fire, suggesting it was a targeted killing.

According to the military, the soldiers used the hospital as a hideout. One of those who carried out the attack reportedly handed over weapons and ammunition to others for the planned attack, which was said to have been inspired by an October 7 attack by Hamas in southern Israel. The army did not provide any evidence to support the claim.

A video circulating on social media, believed to have been taken from a hospital security camera, showed about a dozen undercover soldiers, most of whom were armed women wearing Muslim headscarves or hospital staff in scrubs or white medical coats. One in a surgical mask carried a rifle in one hand and a folded wheelchair in the other. Powers were seen clapping at one man kneeling against the wall with his arms raised.

At the same time, fighting continued in the Gaza Strip, even as negotiations for a ceasefire to end the war progressed. The war began when hundreds of Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. and kidnapped approximately 250 people.

According to the Ministry of Health in Hamas-controlled Gaza, Israel launched an air, sea and land offensive that killed more than 26,700 people in Gaza. The ministry’s figures do not distinguish between fighters and non-combatants, but say that around two-thirds of the dead are women and children.

The conflict has also leveled large parts of the small coastal region, displaced 85 percent of its population and starved a quarter of its population. A humanitarian crisis could soon worsen, the United Nations warned, after several countries froze funding to the main aid donor to the Palestinians in Gaza following Israeli claims that a dozen of its workers were involved in the October 7 attack.

Israel has come under severe criticism for its attacks on Gaza hospitals, which treated tens of thousands of Palestinians wounded in the war and provided critical shelter for displaced people.

Gaza’s health system, already weak before the war, was on the verge of collapse, strained by the large number of patients, lack of fuel and medical supplies limited by Israeli restrictions, and frequent outages due to fighting in and near the facilities. . . .

According to Israel, soldiers use hospitals, especially in Gaza, as hideouts or bases to launch operations. The army discovered underground tunnels near hospitals and claims to have found weapons and vehicles used in the attack of October 7 in the hospital area.

Since October 7, violence has increased in the West Bank as Israel has attacked suspected militants, killing more than 380 Palestinians, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Most of them died in clashes with Israeli forces during arrests or during violent demonstrations.

The Israeli army has announced that it has arrested nearly 3,000 Palestinians in the West Bank over the past four months.

The army said on Tuesday that troops killed 27-year-old Mohammed Jalamneh, who it said was planning an immediate attack. Two other dead, brothers Baselo and Mohammed Ghazawi, were hiding in a hospital and were involved in the attacks, the army said.

The military did not provide details on how the three were killed. The statement said Jalamneh was armed with a pistol, but did not mention the exchange of fire.

Hospital spokesman Tawfiq al-Shobaki said there was no exchange of fire and Israeli forces killed three people in a targeted killing. He said the Israelis attacked doctors, nurses and hospital security personnel during the attack.

“What happened is a precedent,” he said. “There was never a murder in the hospital. They were arrested and beaten, but there was no murder.”

He said Basel Ghazawi had been hospitalized since October with hemiplegia or partial paralysis.

Hamas considered the three men members and called the operation a “cowardly murder.”

The an attack took place in Jenin, I must be armed. a struggle against Israel in the bastion, where the internationally supported Palestinian Authority and its security forces have little to carry. The city was under frequent Israeli attack even before the war began Israeli operations there and a refugee camp built next door in 2011 left massive destruction

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Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem after the Middle East War of 1967. More than half a million Israelis currently live in the settlements of the West Bank.

Israel pulled troops and settlers out of Gaza in 2005, but imposed a suffocating blockade along with Egypt after Hamas took power in a violent coup in 2007.

The Palestinians see these areas as an independent part of their future. a country whose hopes had waned since the beginning of the war.

Meanwhile, progress on a new deal between Israel and Hamas that could lead to a halt to fighting and the release of dozens of hostages still held in Gaza appeared unlikely.

On Tuesday, Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said the group was studying the final terms of the deal, but said the priority was the “complete withdrawal” of Israeli forces from Gaza, which Israel opposes, and that any agreement should. lead to to a long-term ceasefire.

He said that the leadership of Hamas has been invited to Cairo to continue negotiations.

Israel said Sunday’s ceasefire talks were constructive but had “significant gaps”.