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.

  • 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.