Israeli forces disguised as Arabs, including one impersonating a pregnant woman in a wheelchair, raided a West bank hospital, shooting dead a relative of a man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack.
The Israeli security service operatives infiltrated the hospital in the city of Hebron on Thursday at around 2.50am.
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Hospital staff and eyewitnesses said that 20 to 30 undercover forces had entered the hospital with guns hidden beneath the person pretending to be pregnant and in labour.
RT reports: Jehad Shawar, director of Al Ahly Hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, told Palestinian radio around 30 men arrived at the scene in two vans and entered the hospital building with a person pretending to be pregnant, Reuters reports.
The Israeli forces infiltrated the hospital to arrest a Palestinian named Abdallah Azzam al-Shalalda, 27, who allegedly stabbed an Israeli settler near Hebron two weeks ago.
CCTV footage from the hospital shows armed men, all dressed as Arabs, some of them bearded or covering their faces, bursting into the corridor, aiming guns at medical personnel.
03.54 12/11/15 > 20 MOSSAD arrive at Palestinian hospital to murder a visitor & kidnap a patient pic.twitter.com/NUY1wPuLdy #bds #Gaza
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“They held the staff at gunpoint and stormed the room of al-Shalalda,” Shawar said, as cited by Reuters.
Al-Shalalda’s brother Bilal was reportedly in the same room and was tied to the bed by the Israeli operatives. Another man, al-Shalalda’s cousin, was shot dead moments later.
“As soon they entered the room they tied me to the bed. [My cousin] was inside the bathroom and wanted to wash for prayer. As he was exiting the bathroom, one of the undercover men shouted at him to stop and they opened fire,” Bilal told Reuters TV.
Afterwards the Israeli operatives captured Al-Shalalda himself, put him in a wheelchair and got out of the room while not allowing medical aid for the man who was shot.
“[The cousin] remained on the ground bleeding and they hit [Al-Shalalda] my brother on his head and took him away,” according to al-Shalalda’s brother Bilal as quoted by Reuters.
Israeli military claims Abdallah Azzam al-Shalalda is suspected of carrying out a stabbing against a settler. His victim allegedly tried to retaliate but al-Shalalda managed to escape.
A spokeswoman for the military suggests he and his family, including the cousin who was shot dead, were “known Hamas operatives,” according to Reuters.
The assault and shooting at a medical institution has caused outrage on social media.
Israeli undercover unit raided Hebron hospital, killed one man and kidnapped his cousin https://t.co/VZ1vMOe3vCpic.twitter.com/2V7g4vQVJA — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) November 12, 2015
A non profit rights group, physicians for Human Rights-Israel, have accused Israeli forces of repeatedly violating the special protection afforded to hospital and medical facilities. “By doing so they are putting patients, hospital staff and visitors at risk” they said
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