As of: January 31, 2024, 3:04 p.m
By: Laura May
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Israeli forces disguise themselves as hospital staff.
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The war between Israel and Hamas continues in the West Bank - an Israeli special force has now killed three Palestinian militants in a clinic.
Ramallah - Israeli soldiers killed three suspected terrorists during a special operation at a hospital in the northern West Bank.
According to the army, one of the men is a member of the terrorist organization Hamas, the other two are also extremist Palestinians with connections to Islamic Jihad.
According to information from the
dpa
, the men were hiding in the Ibn Sina Hospital .
Therefore, the Israeli fighters gained disguised access to the health facility before attacking.
Humanitarian infrastructure has been at the center of the fighting in Israel since the beginning of the war.
Israel versus Hamas: a wheelchair in one hand, a machine gun in the other
Video recordings that Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir posted on X (formerly Twitter), among others, show the operation.
Soldiers disguised as doctors and patients can be seen entering the clinic and searching those present.
Some of the soldiers are camouflaged in doctor's coats, others are dressed as patients in civilian clothes or veiled as women with a headscarf.
One of the soldiers is wearing a medical mask, holding a folded wheelchair in his left hand and a machine gun in his right hand.
Israel justifies its deployment with Hamas' attack plans
Israel justifies the operation with an impending attack that the killed Hamas member is said to have planned.
The 27-year-old man is said to have been inspired by the massacre on October 7th.
He also had connections to the Hamas leadership abroad.
The military's statements to the
German Press Agency
could not initially be independently verified.
According to Israeli sources, all three men killed came from the refugee district of the city of Jenin, which is considered a stronghold of Palestinian militants.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health condemns the attack and continues to call for international protection for medical facilities.
The man who was killed was not hiding in the hospital, but was there for treatment after being injured in an Israeli drone strike.
(Laura May)