The ministry condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel's military to halt such operations in hospitals.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces opened fire inside the wards of the Ibn Sina Hospital in the town of Jenin. The ministry condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel’s military to halt such operations in hospitals. A hospital spokesperson said there was no exchange of fire, indicating that it was a targeted killing.

Footage said to be security camera video from the hospital that circulated on social media showed about a dozen undercover forces, most of them armed, dressed as women with Muslim headscarves or hospital staff in scrubs or white doctor’s coats. One in a surgical mask carried a rifle in one arm and a folded wheelchair in the other. The forces were seen patting down one man who kneeled against a wall, his arms raised.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    457·
    9 months ago

    Sure, what’s a few more international laws broken? But my point was, if they were going to commit war crimes anyway, maybe they could have done it like this instead of killing 10,000 children.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      203·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, my first reaction was “at least it wasn’t civilians this time.” Whole thing is fucked up but it’s better than a 2,000 pound bomb on the hospital.

        • kescusay@lemmy.world
          152·
          9 months ago

          With targeted operations like this, they knew exactly who they were going after and where. That’s not a defense of Israel’s actions, just a statement that this isn’t the sort of thing they’d do to take out some random civilians.

          In fact, much the opposite. This more closely resembles the sort of action Israel could have done from the beginning to take down Hamas without destroying Gaza. It would have deprived Hamas of their propaganda wins, would have kept the world firmly on Israel’s side, and would have been much more effective long-term.

          • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
            61·
            9 months ago

            Not more effective at letting them kill all the Palestinians which some of them have already admitted is what they want.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            84·
            9 months ago

            they knew exactly who they were going after and where

            So it was targeted rather than random? Could be journalists and/or dissidents. They target those a LOT.

            • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
              8·
              9 months ago

              Unlikely to be Israeli dissidents in a Gaza West Bank hospital, and if they were Palestinian dissidents against Hamas, it wouldn’t make any sense to target them.

              And if they were journalists, we’d already be hearing about it from their publishers, as we have with other journalist killings.

              The most likely scenario is that they really were members of Hamas, but that just serves to highlight that the atrocities Netanyahu’s government has otherwise engaged in have been unnecessary.

              Edit: Correcting myself, because accuracy is important.

        • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
          22·
          9 months ago

          Who says it wasn’t civilians?

          Hamas and Islamic Jihad themselves, or are they too just Israeli hasbara?

          “Hamas confirmed that Jalamneh was one of its members. The Jenin Brigade, which includes a number of Palestinian armed resistance groups, said in a statement that two of the three men were members of Islamic Jihad.”

          Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/30/israel-troops-kill-three-palestinians-in-west-bank-hospital-ministry

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
        55·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, weird that anyone would pick up a gun and point at a group of people that just bombed away generations of non-combatants, because they may just fear for their (and loved ones) lives at this point. They are now fueling the group that takes the place of Hamas by continuing to go scorched earth on all of Gaza.

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
      33·
      9 months ago

      But then those 10,000 children would still be alive. The point of Israel’s campaign is the eradication of Palestinean people from the Gaza strip without having to accommodate the political rights that the US constitution (without which Israel is glass) would have afforded them.