Israeli forces in civilian clothing stormed a Palestinian hospital in the occupied West Bank early Tuesday morning, killing three militants, including a commander in Hamas, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.
A video released by the Palestinian Health Authority shows armed members of Israeli forces dressed in civilian clothes inside Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Jenin. Photo: Screen grabbed from video.
The top Palestinian health official in the city of Jenin, Wisam Sbeihat, said that Israeli forces had entered Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital there dressed in civilian clothes and carrying weapons. They went to the room where the Hamas commander, Mohammad Jalamneh, 27, was staying with two friends, and shot all three dead, Mr. Sbeihat said.
Surveillance video released by the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry shows multiple gunmen in apparent civilian garb — including one dressed in a white medical coat and another in blue scrubs — walking through the hospital halls, brandishing weapons. The Israeli raid took less than 15 minutes, said Niji Nazzal, the Ibn Sina hospital director.
“This is a hospital. It deserves protection from all kinds of violence,” Dr. Nazzal said. “But unfortunately,” he added, “this is what happened.”
In a statement, Hamas mourned Mr. Jalamneh as a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, the Palestinian faction’s armed wing. A local militia affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed his companions — brothers Mohammad Ghazawi and Basil Ghazawi — as members.
The Israeli military said all three had been involved in militant activity, including attacks against Israelis. Mr Jalamneh had also been planning “to carry out a terror attack in the immediate future and used the hospital as a hiding place,” the military said.
Basil Ghazawi was paralyzed and had been treated in the hospital’s rehabilitation ward since late October, Dr. Nazzal said. The Israeli military said that he and Mohammed Ghazawi “hid inside the hospital.”
Basil Ghazawi was wounded in his spinal column by shrapnel from an Israeli drone strike on Oct. 25, Dr. Nazzal said. That could not be independently confirmed, but the Israeli military said at the time that a drone had fired on Palestinian gunmen who had hurled explosive devices and fired on Israeli soldiers in Jenin. It did not name Mr. Ghazawi.
A video released by the Palestinian Health Authority shows armed members of Israeli forces dressed in civilian clothes inside Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in Jenin. Photo: screen grabbed from the video.
Surging violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where millions of Palestinians live under Israeli military rule, has prompted fears of another front in the Middle East crisis spiralling out of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Since the war in Gaza began, at least 367 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and civilians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the highest toll in years, the United Nations said on Monday.
Israel has escalated its attempts to crack down on Palestinian militant activity in the West Bank since Hamas’s surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel prompted full-blown war. More than 2,980 Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of the war in near-daily raids, over 1,350 of them affiliated with Hamas, according to the Israeli military.
The covert raid within the hospital in Jenin raised questions under international law, experts said. Hospitals require special protection and respect under the laws of war, although that protection ceases if the compounds are used for military purposes, according to Eliav Lieblich, an expert on international law at Tel Aviv University.
If Mr. Ghazawi was indeed paralyzed and incapable of defending himself, he should not have been subject to attack under customary international law, Professor Lieblich added. “Whether this was the case here is a question of fact,” he said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross stated concern. “Under international humanitarian law, hospitals and medical patients should be respected and protected at all times,” the statement said, noting that the I.C.R.C. would “address this as part of its confidential dialogue with the concerned authorities.”
軍方稱，以色列軍隊在約旦河西岸醫院殺死了包括哈馬斯指揮官在內的三名武裝份子
據以色列軍方和巴勒斯坦官員稱，以色列軍隊週二凌晨襲擊了被佔領的約旦河西岸的一家巴勒斯坦醫院，殺死了三名武裝分子，其中包括哈馬斯的一名指揮官。
傑寧市巴勒斯坦最高衛生官員維薩姆·斯貝哈特表示，以色列軍隊身著便服並攜帶武器進入那裡的伊本·西納專科醫院。 斯貝哈特說，他們進入了 27 歲的哈馬斯指揮官穆罕默德·賈拉姆尼 (Mohammad Jalamneh) 和兩個朋友住的房間，槍殺了三人。
巴勒斯坦權力機構衛生部發布的監視影片顯示，多名槍手穿著明顯的平民服裝，其中一名身穿白色醫用外套，另一名身穿藍色工作服，揮舞著武器穿過醫院大廳。 伊本西納醫院院長 Niji Nazzal 表示，以色列的突襲行動只花了不到 15 分鐘。
「這是一家醫院。 它應該受到保護，免受各種暴力，」納扎爾博士說。 “但不幸的是，”他補充道， “這就是發生的事情。”
哈馬斯在聲明中哀悼賈拉姆內先生，他是巴勒斯坦派系武裝組織卡薩姆旅的領導人。 隸屬於巴勒斯坦伊斯蘭聖戰組織的當地民兵聲稱他的同伴穆罕默德·加扎維和巴茲爾·加扎維兄弟是成員。
以色列軍方表示，這三人都參與了武裝活動，包括針對以色列人的攻擊。 軍方表示，賈拉姆內還計劃「在不久的將來發動恐怖攻擊，並利用醫院作為藏身之處」。
納扎爾醫生說，巴茲爾·加扎維癱瘓了，自 10 月底以來一直在醫院的康復病房接受治療。 以色列軍方表示，他和穆罕默德·加札維「躲在醫院裡」。
納扎爾博士說，10 月 25 日，以色列無人機襲擊巴茲爾·加扎維，他的脊椎被彈片擊傷。 這項消息無法獨立證實，但以色列軍方當時表示，一架無人機向巴勒斯坦槍手開火，這些槍手向傑寧的以色列士兵投擲爆炸裝置並向以色列士兵開槍。 它沒有提到加札維先生的名字。
以色列佔領的約旦河西岸暴力事件激增，數百萬巴勒斯坦人生活在以色列軍事統治下，這引發了人們對以色列與加薩哈馬斯戰爭引發的中東危機的另一條戰線的擔憂。 聯合國週一表示，自加薩戰爭爆發以來，約旦河西岸和東耶路撒冷至少有 367 名巴勒斯坦人被以色列士兵和平民殺害，這是多年來最高的死亡人數。
自從哈馬斯 10 月 7 日對以色列的突襲引發全面戰爭以來，以色列加強了打擊約旦河西岸巴勒斯坦激進活動的力度。 據以色列軍方稱，自戰爭開始以來，已有超過 2,980 名巴勒斯坦人在幾乎每天的襲擊中被捕，其中超過 1,350 人隸屬於哈馬斯。
專家表示，傑寧醫院內的秘密突襲引發了國際法的質疑。 特拉維夫大學國際法專家埃利亞夫·利布利希表示，醫院需要根據戰爭法受到特殊保護和尊重，儘管如果這些化合物用於軍事目的，這種保護就會停止。
利布里希教授補充說，如果加札維先生確實癱瘓並且無法自衛，那麼根據習慣國際法，他不應受到攻擊。 「這裡的情況是否如此，這是一個事實問題，」他說。
紅十字國際委員會對此表示關切。 聲明中寫道： “根據國際人道法，醫院和患者在任何時候都應受到尊重和保護。” 將“作為與有關當局秘密對話的一部分來解決這個問題。”
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