Not content with their raid on the
Makassed hospital last week, when tear
gas and sound grenades were used, undercover
Israeli soldiers have now raided Hebron hospital, killing the cousin of a
patient whom they detained.
The phrase ‘the most moral army’ in the world
is taking on a very sick flavour.
Naturally this is a war crime but not one that
the BBC will see fit to publicise nor the American President to condemn.
Tony Greenstein
Video: Undercover Israeli soldiers kill one, arrest one inside Hebron hospital
Early
Wednesday morning, an undercover Israeli special forces unit disguised as
Palestinian civilians accompanying a pregnant woman inside a Hebron hospital
killed one man and arrested another while holding doctors at gunpoint. The
arrested man, Azzam al-Shalaldeh, 22, is reportedly suspected of attacking an
Israeli weeks ago.
Security
camera footage from the al-Ahli hospital published by local media shows a group
of officers with faux beards and mustaches, and traditional Palestinian scarves
entering the medical facility shortly before 3:oo am.
They
rush past a reception desk in the surgical ward into a treatment room
where Azzam al-Shalaldeh was recovering from injuries sustained during clashes
with the Israeli army outside of Hebron 20 days ago. The Israeli forces then
arrested Shalaldeh, during which Israeli forces shot and killed his cousin
Abdullah al-Shalaldah, 27.
Palestine
Today reported Israeli forces shot al-Shalaldah four times in the chest
and head, with a weapon that was fixed with a silencer.
The
Palestinian Ministry of Health released a statement condemning the operation
inside of the medical facility, stating 21 Israeli undercover officers
participated.
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| Abdallah al-Shalaldeh |
Immediately
following the shooting the Israeli forces were filmed exiting the hospital
holding handguns. Staff at al-Ahli said the identity of the woman who entered
with the Israeli officers is unknown.
“A
hospital should be the safest place even in times of war, yet they have
penetrated the hospital, arrested someone and murdered someone in it,” the
director of the al-Ahli medical complex Dr. Jihad Shawour said to Mondoweiss,
describing the incursion as “an ugly and disrespectful manner to enter the
hospital.”
“We
are used to getting arrested in various places and we have seen this scenario
playing out before,” said Shawour, making a reference to another Palestinian
arrested from a hospital bed by Israeli security forces in Nablus two weeks ago
on similar suspicions of attacking an Israeli, “however this is the first time
there has been a murder in the hospital.”
“So
now the Palestinians are being killed in the road, the mosque, the church, the
school and now the hospital,” Shawour added.
Palestinian
parliament member Qais Abdel Karim called the incident a “double
heinous crime” and said Israeli forces had “executed” al-Shalaldah.
