Palestinian shot dead in Israeli undercover raid on West Bank hospital

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Israeli forces disguised in Palestinian clothes – including one impersonating a pregnant woman in a wheelchair – have raided a hospital in the flashpoint city of Hebron, shooting dead a relative of a man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack.

The operation, involving two dozen undercover soldiers and Shin Bet agents – some wearing fake beards – took place in the early hours of Thursday morning.

During the raid, patients on the third floor of the al-Ahly hospital were confined to their wards. Hospitals are customarily regarded in conflicts as protected locations, even for enemy combatants.

The armed swoop – the second by Israeli forces on a Palestinian hospital this year – saw 27-year-old Abdallah Shalaldeh killed as he emerged from a bathroom in the ward where his cousin, Azzam, a Hamas member, was being treated for gunshot wounds.

The Israeli army confirmed the raid and shooting. It said Azzam Shalaldeh was suspected of stabbing an Israeli settler two weeks ago in the West Bank.

Hospital staff and eyewitnesses – including another relative of the two men – said troops had entered the hospital with guns hidden beneath the person pretending to be pregnant.

Jihad Shawar, the hospital’s director, said: “The undercover forces arrived at about 2.50 in the morning. There were 20-30 of them. They came to the main door pretending to be relatives of a woman going into labour and wanted to take her to surgery.

 

“When they got into the reception area the woman stood up and they produced guns, including some hidden underneath her on the wheel chair. They went straight to the room on the third floor where Azzam Shalaldeh, who had been treated here since 25 October, was staying.

“They handcuffed his brother [Bilal Shalaldeh] with a belt. But when his cousin Abdallah came out of a bathroom on the ward they shot him five times before taking Azzam in the wheelchair they had brought. This is an outright crime. No one should violate hospitals.”

According to the Israeli authorities, Azzam Shalaldeh was being treated at the hospital for gunshot wounds, which the military said were sustained when the Israeli he allegedly stabbed last month shot him.

It said he was about 20 and from a family of “known Hamas operatives”.

Israel said Abdallah Shalaldeh was shot dead after grappling with soldiers – a claim denied by some Palestinian witnesses, who said he was shot as he left the bathroom. Othersquoted anonymously in the Israeli mediasaid there had been a scuffle.

Video footage of the incident shows about a dozen men walking down a hospital corridor, pushing someone covered in a blanket in a wheelchair. The person in the wheelchair flings the blanket off, stands up and, with the others, draws a gun and continues walking.

On the ward where Abdallah Shalaldeh was shot, a large pool of blood was visible on Thursday.

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Disgusting. In hospital of all places. Makes you think how many times in the past they "pretended to be Palestinian".

Though it's interesting how far they would go to kill (not arrest ofc) the one who allegedly attacked jewish settler, while jewish terrorists who burned Dawabsha family are still free. And there were no similar raids. 

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An undercover hospital assassination for a stabbing suspect? Israeli forces doing the absolute most :toofunny:

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3 minutes ago, bionic said:

An undercover hospital assassination for a stabbing suspect? Israeli forces doing the absolute most :toofunny:

ikr? You would think this kind of **** exists only in movies.