The Israeli Army has raided this Tuesday the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, and has shot dead three militants, including Mohamed Jalamneh, a senior member of Hamas, Israeli and Palestinian authorities confirmed. The soldiers infiltrated the hospital dressed in doctors’ and nurses’ uniforms, and Palestinian women’s clothing.

“Jalamneh, a Hamas terrorist involved in major terrorist activity recently, is was hiding in the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin and was neutralized,” has maintained the Israeli Army, which has also killed two other members of the Islamic Jihad, brothers Mohamed and Basel Ghazawi.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of the three Palestinians and has denounced a “new occupation massacre” inside hospitals, as Israeli troops “broke into the Jenin hospital and carried out a shootout inside.” “A terrorist cell hiding in the Ibn Sina hospital and planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the immediate period was neutralized,” a military statement said.

Dresses of doctors, nurses and Palestinian women

For the operation, which was carried out in less than 10 minutes, Israeli soldiers They infiltrated the hospital dressed as doctors, nurses and Palestinian women, They went to the third floor where the militants were and 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 by 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, always according to the military spokesman.

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 Basel, is also involved in “terrorist activity” in the area, according to the military statement. “For a long time, wanted suspects have hidden in hospitals and used 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 counter-terrorist activity of the Israeli security forces,” the Army has pointed out.

“This is another example of the cynical use of civilian areas and hospitals as shelters and human shields by terrorist organizations,” added the Army, which in the Gaza Strip has also besieged and almost attacked its hospitals, alleging that members of Hamas are hiding there.

The ANP asks the UN to act

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 “put an end to the series of daily crimes committed by the occupation against our people and health 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 has argued.