Israeli commandos raid7 hospital dressed as docs
Three ‘terror suspects’ gunned down
AN Israeli special forces team stormed a hospital disguised as doctors and nurses then shot dead three Palestinians.
One of the armed undercover operatives was even carrying a wheelchair in the raid, which involved around a dozen elite soldiers, some wearing masks.
They barged into the Ibn Sina hospital in the city of Jenin on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and shot the three Hamas members.
Israel claims the victims of the attack were armed operatives using the hospital as a hideout.
The Palestinian
Health Ministry called on the international community to stop Israeli operations in hospitals.
Insiders believe the fighters were from the Duvdevan
Unit 217, a force used to infiltrate
Arab communities.
One carried a rifle in one arm and a folded wheelchair in the other.
Nearly 400 people have been killed in the West Bank since the October 7 attacks, in which Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages. Meanwhile, bodies continue to pile up in the streets of the Gaza Strip, with the death toll said to have topped 26,000 after more Israeli strikes.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports of a possible ceasefire to end the war in Gaza and repeated his vow to keep fighting until “absolute victory” over Hamas. He said: “We will not end this war without achieving all of our goals.
“We will not withdraw the Israeli military from the Gaza Strip and we will not release thousands of terrorists.”
The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli forces raided the Al-amal Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis yesterday, where about 7,000 displaced people were sheltering.
The rescue service said Israeli tanks outside the hospital were firing live ammunition and smoke grenades at the people inside.
Raed al-nims, a spokesman for the aid group, said everyone was ordered to evacuate.
The Israeli military said without elaborating that its forces were operating in the area of the hospital but not inside it.
Israel has been strengthening its positions to the north, where crossborder attacks between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israeli troops teeter towards all-out war.
US President Joe Biden says he has made a decision on how to respond to a drone attack in Jordan that killed three US Army reserve soldiers. He declined to provide more details about what that response would be.