This is the moment heavily armed Israeli commandos disguised as Muslim women and doctors raided a West Bank hospital early Tuesday — shooting dead three suspected terrorists in just 10 minutes.
The dramatic surveillance video from Ibn Sina hospital in the town of Jenin shows about a dozen Israeli undercover special forces soldiers dressed as Muslim women in headscarves or hospital workers in scrubs or white doctor coats rushing through a hallway with assault rifles drawn.
One of the Israeli soldiers is in a surgical mask and carrying a rifle in one arm and a folded wheelchair in the other.
Another, dressed in all black, pats down a man kneeling against a wall with his hands clasped behind his head.
Other graphic images released by Palestinian news media showed a blood-soaked pillow with a bullet hole on a hospital bed and a foldout armchair covered with blood.
The Israeli military said the trio of Palestinians fatally shot during the raid were using the hospital as a hideout — and that one of them was a Hamas member who had smuggled weapons and ammunition to others for a future planned terrorist attack “inspired by the Oct. 7 massacre.”
Hospital officials claimed the Israeli undercover forces broke into the medical complex around 5:30 a.m. local time, headed to the third floor and killed the three men with silenced pistols.
“They executed the three men as they slept in the room. They executed them in cold blood by firing bullets directly into their heads inside the room where they were being treated,” said Niji Nazzal, the hospital’s medical director.
One of those killed was identified as 27-year-old Mohammed Jalamneh, who the Israeli military said was planning the imminent attack.
Hamas confirmed that Jalamneh was a member of the group and decried his killing as a “cowardly assassination.”
The two others, brothers Basel and Mohammed Ghazawi, were hiding inside the hospital and were involved in past terror attacks, Israel claimed.
The Israeli military did not provide details on how the three were killed. Its statement said Jalamneh was armed with a pistol, but there was no mention of a gun battle. The entire operation was said to have taken about 10 minutes.
Ghazzawi was in the hospital for treatment after being paralyzed from the waist down when he was wounded by shrapnel during a clash between Israeli forces and Palestinians in late October, according to hospital sources.
Ghazzawi was wheelchair-bound, having lost the use of his legs, and his brother Mohammad was staying with him to help out, hospital sources said.
Another Palestinian terrorist group, Islamic Jihad, claimed the two brothers as its members.
Ibn Sina Hospital rep Tawfiq al-Shobaki alleged that the Israeli squad attacked doctors, nurses and hospital security during the operation.
“What happened is a precedent,” he said. “There was never an assassination inside a hospital. There were arrests and assaults, but not an assassination.”
Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila denounced the incident as a war crime and urged the United Nations and international rights groups to crack down on such actions by the Israeli military.
With Post wires