Moment soldiers disguised as medics gun down three people in hospital | World News

This is the chilling moment around a dozen soldiers, disguised as women and medical staff, stormed a hospital and gunned down three people.

Footage shows a dozen Israeli troops pacing with rifles in the Ibn Sina hospital in the town of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, earlier this morning.

The dramatic raid, which underscored the spillover of violence into the Palestinian territory during the war in Gaza, was captured on CCTV and then shared on X.

A border police counter-terrorism unit and a unit from the internal security forces, known as the Shin Bet, entered the hospital on the outskirts of the city’s refugee camp.

Most of them were armed, and dressed as women with Muslim headscarves, and even in scrubs or white doctor’s coats.

One troop in a surgical mask is seen carrying a rifle in one hand and a wheelchair in the other.

They opened fire on people inside, killing what the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said were three Palestinian militants.

It alleged that one of those targeted in the raid had transferred weapons to others for a planned attack, purportedly inspired by the Hamas assault on southern Israel on October 7.

But the military did not provide evidence backing that claim, only stressing that Hamas use hospitals, especially in Gaza, to hide out or to launch operations from.

Hamas claimed one of the dead in the hospital as its member. The allied faction Islamic Jihad claimed the other two, saying they were brothers.

Authorities at Ibn Sina said one of the brothers had been receiving treatment for an injury that paralysed his legs.

The Palestinian health ministry immediately condemned the ‘heinous crime’ and called on the international community to pressure the IDF to halt such operations in hospitals.

Tensions have soared in the West Bank amid Israel’s ground and air offensive in Gaza.

Jenin, a militant stronghold, has been a focus of similar raids and arrests for months.

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