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Security footage shows Israeli forces disguised as civilians and medical staff during a raid on Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank, on January 30, 2023.
(Photo: Screengrab via CNN)
'Rule-of-Law Western Style': Israeli Assassination Squad Kills Three in Jenin Hospital
Ibn Sina hospital's medical director said the Palestinian men were "executed in cold blood."
Jan 30, 2024
A team of Israeli forces disguised as civilians and medical staff raided Ibn Sina hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and assassinated three Palestinians, claiming without providing evidence that they were using the facility as a hideout and planning an attack inspired by the Hamas-led October 7 assault.
Journalists on the ground report that there was no apparent attempt to arrest the three individuals, whom the Israeli military identified as Mohammed Jalamneh, Mohammed Ghazawi, and his brother Basel Ghazawi. Ibn Sina's medical director said the three men were "executed in cold blood."
Al Jazeera reported that "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," the outlet added.
A hospital spokesperson told The Associated Press that 18-year-old Basel Ghazawi "had been a patient in the hospital since October with partial paralysis."
Security footage from the hospital shows Israeli forces dressed as civilian women and medical workers moving through a facility hallway and waiting area with assault rifles drawn.
#شاهد
لحظة اقتحام قوة خاصة من جيش الاحتلال تتنكر بلباس الطواقم الطبية مستشفى ابن سينا في #جنين واغتيال الشهداء محمد جلامنة وباسل ومحمد الغزاوي pic.twitter.com/6TwHEPb9NI
— Newpress | نيو برس (@NewpressPs) January 30, 2024
Citing Palestinian officials, AP reported that the Israeli forces "opened fire inside the wards" of the hospital, located in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian health officials "condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel's military to halt such operations in hospitals," AP added. "A hospital spokesperson said there was no exchange of fire, indicating that it was a targeted killing."
Hospitals have special protections under international law, but Israel has treated them as legitimate targets for military operations since October 7, endangering wounded patients and medical personnel by raiding and shelling the facilities at will.
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, sardonically described the Israeli forces' Jenin hospital raid as "rule-of-law Western style" and rejected the notion that "you can kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying, brand him/her terrorist, and then vilify as antisemites the ancestors of everyone who questions your right to kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying."
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Ramallah, said Tuesday that "the Israeli army often surrounds and in some instances has attacked the three Palestinian hospitals in Jenin during nightly raids on the city."
"But this is the first time they have entered a civilian medical facility in what seems to have been a well-planned, targeted assassination operation that Palestinian authorities are calling another violation of international law," said Stratford.
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A team of Israeli forces disguised as civilians and medical staff raided Ibn Sina hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and assassinated three Palestinians, claiming without providing evidence that they were using the facility as a hideout and planning an attack inspired by the Hamas-led October 7 assault.
Journalists on the ground report that there was no apparent attempt to arrest the three individuals, whom the Israeli military identified as Mohammed Jalamneh, Mohammed Ghazawi, and his brother Basel Ghazawi. Ibn Sina's medical director said the three men were "executed in cold blood."
Al Jazeera reported that "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," the outlet added.
A hospital spokesperson told The Associated Press that 18-year-old Basel Ghazawi "had been a patient in the hospital since October with partial paralysis."
Security footage from the hospital shows Israeli forces dressed as civilian women and medical workers moving through a facility hallway and waiting area with assault rifles drawn.
#شاهد
لحظة اقتحام قوة خاصة من جيش الاحتلال تتنكر بلباس الطواقم الطبية مستشفى ابن سينا في #جنين واغتيال الشهداء محمد جلامنة وباسل ومحمد الغزاوي pic.twitter.com/6TwHEPb9NI
— Newpress | نيو برس (@NewpressPs) January 30, 2024
Citing Palestinian officials, AP reported that the Israeli forces "opened fire inside the wards" of the hospital, located in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian health officials "condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel's military to halt such operations in hospitals," AP added. "A hospital spokesperson said there was no exchange of fire, indicating that it was a targeted killing."
Hospitals have special protections under international law, but Israel has treated them as legitimate targets for military operations since October 7, endangering wounded patients and medical personnel by raiding and shelling the facilities at will.
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, sardonically described the Israeli forces' Jenin hospital raid as "rule-of-law Western style" and rejected the notion that "you can kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying, brand him/her terrorist, and then vilify as antisemites the ancestors of everyone who questions your right to kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying."
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Ramallah, said Tuesday that "the Israeli army often surrounds and in some instances has attacked the three Palestinian hospitals in Jenin during nightly raids on the city."
"But this is the first time they have entered a civilian medical facility in what seems to have been a well-planned, targeted assassination operation that Palestinian authorities are calling another violation of international law," said Stratford.
A team of Israeli forces disguised as civilians and medical staff raided Ibn Sina hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and assassinated three Palestinians, claiming without providing evidence that they were using the facility as a hideout and planning an attack inspired by the Hamas-led October 7 assault.
Journalists on the ground report that there was no apparent attempt to arrest the three individuals, whom the Israeli military identified as Mohammed Jalamneh, Mohammed Ghazawi, and his brother Basel Ghazawi. Ibn Sina's medical director said the three men were "executed in cold blood."
Al Jazeera reported that "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," the outlet added.
A hospital spokesperson told The Associated Press that 18-year-old Basel Ghazawi "had been a patient in the hospital since October with partial paralysis."
Security footage from the hospital shows Israeli forces dressed as civilian women and medical workers moving through a facility hallway and waiting area with assault rifles drawn.
#شاهد
لحظة اقتحام قوة خاصة من جيش الاحتلال تتنكر بلباس الطواقم الطبية مستشفى ابن سينا في #جنين واغتيال الشهداء محمد جلامنة وباسل ومحمد الغزاوي pic.twitter.com/6TwHEPb9NI
— Newpress | نيو برس (@NewpressPs) January 30, 2024
Citing Palestinian officials, AP reported that the Israeli forces "opened fire inside the wards" of the hospital, located in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian health officials "condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel's military to halt such operations in hospitals," AP added. "A hospital spokesperson said there was no exchange of fire, indicating that it was a targeted killing."
Hospitals have special protections under international law, but Israel has treated them as legitimate targets for military operations since October 7, endangering wounded patients and medical personnel by raiding and shelling the facilities at will.
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister and co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, sardonically described the Israeli forces' Jenin hospital raid as "rule-of-law Western style" and rejected the notion that "you can kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying, brand him/her terrorist, and then vilify as antisemites the ancestors of everyone who questions your right to kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying."
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Ramallah, said Tuesday that "the Israeli army often surrounds and in some instances has attacked the three Palestinian hospitals in Jenin during nightly raids on the city."
"But this is the first time they have entered a civilian medical facility in what seems to have been a well-planned, targeted assassination operation that Palestinian authorities are calling another violation of international law," said Stratford.
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