CCTV exhibits Israeli spec ops crew storming West Bank hospital

An Israeli spec ops unit – disguised as Muslim ladies and sporting pretend beards – have been seen in CCTV footage storming a West Bank hospital this morning the place they shot useless three Palestinians accused of plotting an October 7-style assault.

The undercover IDF troopers entered the hospital and ‘neutralised’ the trio who the military mentioned belonged to a Hamas ‘terrorist cell’.

Israel accused one in all them of planning an imminent assault impressed by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, and the opposite two of involvement in latest violence. 

One of the three males was present process remedy on the facility for a paralysed leg, the hospital mentioned. It seems from images of the aftermath that one of many males was shot in a hospital mattress, whereas the opposite two have been shot on makeshift beds. 

CCTV circulating on-line appeared to point out round a dozen undercover troops, together with three in ladies’s clothes and two dressed as medical employees, advancing by way of a hall of Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin with assault rifles.

Israeli authorities confirmed the commando operation, and Israel’s police minister shared the clip on social media.

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The video, additionally shared on-line by the Palestinian Quds News Network, confirmed a hospital hall as a number of armed women and men in civilian and medical clothes superior with giant navy rifles raised. One, a person carrying maroon scrubs, is seen carrying a wheelchair below his left arm, a rifle in his proper. 

An preliminary trio have been then adopted by a bigger unit, a few of whom are seen detaining a person who’s kneeling on the ground, who has his fingers on his head towards a wall.

More troopers seem by way of the doorways at one finish of the hall that may be seen within the video, and start organising a fringe, their weapons primed on the entrances. 

In whole, a minimum of 12 armed undercover troopers are seen passing by way of the hall within the brief, minute-long clip. By the top of the footage, solely the person kneeling towards the wall is left within the hall.

The military mentioned troops ‘neutralised’ the three males who have been hiding within the hospital within the north of the West Bank. The time stamp on the CCTV footage displayed the date as January 30 2024 at round 5am native time.

Pictures from contained in the hospital following the operation confirmed a hospital mattress lined in blood, with a bullet gap within the pillow. 

Others confirmed the our bodies of three males within the hospital’s morgue. 

‘This morning three younger males have been martyred by the bullets of the occupation (Israeli) forces, who stormed the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin and shot them,’ the Palestinian well being ministry in Ramallah mentioned.

Hospital director Naji Nazzal informed AFP that ‘a bunch of Israeli forces entered the ability undercover and assassinated the lads’. 

They used weapons fitted with silencers, he mentioned.

The Israeli navy recognized one of many three as a Hamas member who, it mentioned, deliberate an ‘assault impressed by the October 7 bloodbath’. 

Hamas launched a shock raid into southern Israel on October 7 which triggered Israel’s assault on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and sparked a surge of violence within the West Bank, one other territory the place Palestinians search statehood. 

The Hamas assault killed round 1,200 folks into southern Israel and in addition noticed 253 folks dragged again into Gaza by the gunmen.

Since then, greater than 26,000 folks have been killed in Gaza in Israel’s assault on the coastal strip, based on the Hamas-run well being ministry. 

The official Palestinian information company Wafa named the three males as Muhammad Jalamnah, Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi and Basel Ayman Ghazawi.

‘The operation was carried out on the hospital’s rehabilitation ward the place Basel Ghazawi had been present process remedy,’ its director mentioned.

The Israeli military charged that Jalamnah was a ‘Hamas terrorist’ hiding within the hospital, who had contacts with Hamas headquarters overseas and was planning ‘a raid assault impressed by the October seventh bloodbath’.

Two different ‘terrorists who have been hiding contained in the hospital have been ‘neutralised’ together with him, the IDF mentioned.

Jalamnah was concerned in ‘vital terrorist exercise’ and was identified for distributing weapons and ammunition to be used in shootings, the military added.

‘Jalamnah deliberate to hold out a terror assault within the quick future and used the hospital as a hiding place and due to this fact was neutralised.’

Brothers Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi and Basel Ayman Ghazawi have been a member of the Hamas-allied Islamic Jihad and a member of a bunch of Jenin-based gunmen, the Israeli navy assertion mentioned. 

Islamic Jihad claimed the pair and confirmed they have been brothers. Ibn Sina mentioned one of many brothers had been receiving remedy for an damage that paralysed his legs. 

Both had been concerned in latest assaults, the IDF mentioned. 

Israel has lengthy accused Hamas of utilizing Gaza’s hospitals to cover males and weapons in underground tunnels and utilizing Palestinians as human shields. 

Hamas rejects the cost.

‘This is one other instance of the cynical use of civilian areas and hospitals as shelters and human shields by terrorist organisations,’ the Israeli navy mentioned.

Beneath Gaza’s cities lies an enormous community of tunnels constructed by Hamas, which lengthen for lots of of miles into virtually each space of the now shattered enclave.

Some entrance shafts are hidden amongst what stays of the town’s multi-storey buildings, ravaged by Israeli air strikes. 

Others are hid in sandy dunes or in personal properties.

On Monday, Israel launched an assault on the Hamas-ruled enclave’s greatest metropolis.

Residents of Gaza City mentioned air strikes killed and wounded many individuals, whereas tanks shelled jap areas and naval vessels fired at western beachfront areas.

Hamas on Monday fired its first volley of rockets for weeks into Israeli cities, proving it nonetheless had the aptitude to launch them after practically 4 months of battle.

The Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry mentioned on Tuesday that Israel killed 215 Palestinians and wounded 300 others within the Gaza Strip up to now 24 hours.

Israel mentioned late final yr it had largely accomplished operations in northern Gaza and has not too long ago aimed the brunt of its would possibly at southern Gaza. 

But the renewed push in Gaza City, the place residents reported fierce gun battles close to the principle Al-Shifa Hospital, prompt that the battle was not going to plan.

Hamas militants crossed in southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 Israelis and taking 253 hostages. More than 100 hostages stay captive.

The Gaza well being ministry mentioned on Tuesday that 26,637 Palestinians have been killed and a minimum of 65,000 others wounded by Israeli navy strikes since then.

Israel says its forces have killed round 9,000 Palestinian combatants in Gaza, and that 221 of its troopers have died within the combating.

Hamas reiterated on Monday that Israel should halt its Gaza offensive and withdraw from the enclave earlier than extra hostages are freed.

Israel says it can battle till Hamas is eradicated.

Meanwhile, the United States vowed to take ‘all crucial actions’ to defend American forces after a drone assault killed three US troops in Jordan on Sunday.

Qatar mentioned it hoped US retaliation wouldn’t harm regional safety or undercut progress towards a brand new Gaza hostage-release deal.

Sunday’s assault by Iran-backed militants was the primary lethal strike towards US troops for the reason that Israel-Hamas battle erupted in October and marks a serious escalation in tensions which have engulfed the Middle East.

White House National Security spokesman John Kirby mentioned on Monday the United States didn’t desire a wider battle with Iran or within the area, ‘however we obtained to do what we now have to do.’

Iran has denied any function. Biden has beforehand ordered retaliatory assaults on Iran-backed teams however has to this point stopped in need of hitting Iran straight.