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.

    • kescusay@lemmy.world
      131·
      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
        53·
        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