Israeli forces raid hospital in women’s cloak

A video grab of footage showing the undercover raid. Pic/AP

Armed Israeli forces disguised as women and medical workers stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored the spillover of deadly violence to the territory. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces opened fire inside the wards of the Ibn Sina Hospital in the town of Jenin. It condemned the raid and called on the international community to pressure Israel to halt such operations in hospitals. A hospital spokesperson said there was no exchange of fire, indicating that it was a targeted killing.

The military said the militants were using the hospital as a hideout. It alleged that one of those targeted in the raid had transferred weapons and ammunition to others for a planned attack, purportedly inspired by the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7. Footage from the hospital circulated on social media showed about a dozen people, most of them armed, dressed as women with Muslim headscarves or hospital staff in scrubs or white doctor's coats.

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