Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Militants In West Bank Hospital Raid

Israeli forces have killed three militants inside a hospital in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
CCTV footage showed members of an undercover unit disguised as medics and other civilians making their way through a corridor with rifles raised.

The Israeli military said the militants were hiding in the hospital, and that one was about to carry out an attack.

The Palestinian Authority's ministry of health accused Israel of carrying out a "new massacre inside hospitals".

Hamas, an armed Palestinian Islamist group which is fighting a war with Israel in Gaza triggered by its unprecedented attacks on Israel on 7 October, said the Israeli forces had "executed three fighters", including one of its members.

Another armed group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said two of those killed were its members and were brothers. It added that one of them had been receiving treatment at the hospital.
 
The security camera video from Ibn Sina hospital shows several members of the Israeli undercover unit - men and women - hurrying through a corridor, training their weapons left and right. One can be seen taking a piece of clothing of an unidentified person who is kneeling down with his hands behind his head, then covering his head with it.

Tensions have soared in the West Bank since the 7 October attacks, with near daily Israeli arrest raids and clashes with Palestinians. Jenin, a militant stronghold, has been a focus of such raids for months.

Since 7 October, Israeli forces have killed at least 357 Palestinians - militants, civilians and attackers - in the West Bank, while Israeli settlers have killed at least eight, according to the United Nations.

Palestinians from the West Bank have killed at least 10 Israelis in attacks in the West Bank and Israel in the same period.



  



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