New Delhi: In a dramatic operation, Israeli special operators dressed as doctors, nurses and even patients on wheelchairs killed three wanted Palestinians at the Ibn Sina Hospital in West Bank Tuesday.
The operation bore an eerie resemblance to the famous OTT show Fauda.
A video taken by security camera footage that has been viral on social media showed the operation.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz identified the deceased as Basil Ayman Al-Ghazawi, who was hospitalised after being wounded three months ago in an air strike of a cemetery in Jenin, his brother Mohammad Ayman Al-Ghazawi, and another Palestinian named Mohammad Walid Jalamneh.
A statement from Hamas said that the Israeli army’s “crimes will not go unanswered”, adding that the assault was a “continuation of the occupation’s ongoing crimes against our people from Gaza to Jenin”, as reported by Al Jazeera.
Hamas claimed that Jalamneh was a member of Hamas. The Jenin Battalion is a Palestinian militant group founded in 2021.
Quoting an Israeli statement, Haaretz said that Jalamneh was affiliated with Hamas’ military wing and was in contact with Hamas headquarters abroad, transferring weapons and ammunition to terrorists and was planning a raid on Israeli settlements inspired by the Hamas attack on October 7.
The statement further added that Mohammad Al-Ghazawi was active in the Jenin Brigades and his brother Basil was a member of the Islamic Jihad.
Deputy director of Ibn Sina Hospital has been quoted as saying that, Basil Ayman Al-Ghazawi was hospitalised since he was wounded in October and suffered from partial paralysis of the lower body. His brother and another escort stayed by his side during the night.
Haaretz quoted a witness as saying that no one at the hospital noticed the forces entering the compound.
“They entered individually, one was dressed as a woman, another as an old man, a third as a staff member, one was holding an infant seat.
“After they assembled on the third floor, they went into the room where the three were, shot them at point-blank and left,” the eyewitness said. EOM
(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)
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