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ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 10 Feb 2024 7:53 am - Jerusalem Time

“It may amount to war crimes.” UN issues its report on the assassination of Palestinians inside a hospital in Jenin

United Nations rapporteurs said on Friday, February 9, 2024, that Israeli forces raiding a hospital in the West Bank and killing three Palestinians, one of whom was receiving treatment, could amount to “extrajudicial execution and a war crime.”


This came in a statement issued by United Nations rapporteurs regarding Israeli forces storming Ibn Sina Hospital in the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on January 30, disguised as Palestinians.


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“Israel’s public and unlawful killing of three Palestinian men in Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin in the occupied West Bank may amount to serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” the statement said.


It also stressed that "this may amount to extrajudicial execution and war crimes."


The statement also indicated that Israel claimed that the three dead were involved in “terrorist” acts committed by armed Palestinian factions, stressing that Israel must respect international and humanitarian law in all cases.


Then it explained that among those killed by the Israeli forces was a civilian receiving treatment in the hospital, called Basil Ayman Al-Ghazawi. He added: "Under international humanitarian law, killing a civilian receiving treatment in a hospital constitutes a war crime."


Demands an investigation be opened

On January 30, the Israeli army announced that it had assassinated three Palestinians inside Ibn Sina Hospital in a joint operation with the Shin Bet General Security Service and the Special Police Unit.


In this context, the UN rapporteurs’ statement called on Israel to conduct an investigation in accordance with international law, “in order to prosecute and punish those responsible for committing these crimes and those who helped commit them.”


It also called for implementing measures that would prevent possible “arbitrary killings” in the future, and taking the necessary measures in this regard.


Process details

The Israeli Channels 12 and 13 said at the time that the operation “was carried out within 10 minutes, as the force reached the third floor of the hospital and eliminated 3 Palestinians with silencer weapons.”


Channel 12 claimed that “the special force arrived at the hiding room on the third floor, eliminated the three with silencer pistols, and left unharmed within minutes.”

It also continued that the operation began with information examined by the Shin Bet about “the actual intention of the three Palestinians, Muhammad Jalamneh, Muhammad Ghazawi, and Basil Ghazawi, to carry out an attack in the near future.”


The Israeli army has previously carried out raids and arrests from inside hospitals, but it has never, at least in recent years, carried out an assassination operation inside a hospital.


According to a video clip from the hospital's surveillance cameras, 13 masked members carrying machine guns participated in the operation carried out by the special force, including one person who appeared as a doctor, another as a paramedic, and others who appeared as veiled women and men in Arab clothes.


The clip also shows members of the Israeli force forcing one of the Palestinian medical staff to sit on the ground, and one of the force members appeared to be carrying a mobile chair.


According to Anadolu's correspondent, the participants in the Israeli undercover force are "Musta'arabim", a term given to Israeli gangsters and members of special units who disguise themselves in Arab clothing or assume forms similar to Palestinian Arabs.

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“It may amount to war crimes.” UN issues its report on the assassination of Palestinians inside a hospital in Jenin