By Harun Nasrullah
London (The Muslim News): Israeli troops disguised themselves as doctors, nurses, and civilians invaded a hospital in Jenin City, north of the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday morning, killing three Palestinians, including two brothers. Israeli military claimed the three members of a “Hamas terrorist cell” were planning to carry out terror attacks. Meanwhile Israeli forces killed 215 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
Ten Israeli special forces troops dressed in doctor and nurse costumes, as well as ordinary people wielding automatic weapons, attacked the Ibn Sina Hospital and killed three youngsters with silencers, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing hospital sources.
The three Palestinians killed have been identified as brothers Mohammad and Basil Al-Ghazzawi and Mohammad Jalamna, with 25-year-old Basil undergoing medical care in a hospital when Israeli soldiers attacked, according to the news agency.
In a viral video released on platform X, Israeli troops can be seen brandishing guns and terrorising hospital workers and patients. One of the soldiers, clothed totally in black, is seen forcing a Palestinian to lower his knees while raising his hands.
When Israeli troops stormed the hospital with rifles in hand and looked to be screaming at the patients, panic spread throughout the facility.
Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila urged the United Nations and international rights organisations to put an end to Israel’s daily atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as to safeguard Palestinian health facilities from attack.
The Palestinian groups in Jenin have called for a general strike to protest the killing of Palestinians. Many Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli attacks on residential homes in the Sabra and Tuffah neighbourhoods of Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 380 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, with over 4,000 others injured.
Meawhile in Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 26,637 Palestinians have been killed, including 11,000 chldren, 7,500 women and 65,387 wounded in Israeli indiscriminate bombings on Gaza since October 7. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 7,500 Palestinians are missing.
According to Israeli authorities 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7. 136 Israelis and foreigners are still held captive by Hamas in Gaza.
[Photo: Relatives of 3 Palestinians killed by Israeli special forces in Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, West Bank on 30 1 24. Photojournalist: Nedal Eshtayah/ AA]
