Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians in undercover operation at hospital in Jenin

Staff at Jenin's Ibn Sina Hospital are "still in shock" after Israeli undercover forces, dressed as doctors and civilians, killed three Palestinians as they slept inside the hospital on Tuesday morning.

The victims were identified as brothers Basel and Mohammad Ghazawi, 19 and 24 years old, and Mohammad Jalamneh, 28 years old.

Basel Ghazawi was receiving medical treatment at the Ibn Sina Hospital since 25 November for wounds caused by an Israeli drone strike in Jenin.

His brother Mohammad Ghazawi and a friend Mohammad Jalamneh were accompanying him. Israeli forces said its troops had “neutralised” the men, who were hiding in the hospital and allegedly belonged to a Hamas “terrorist cell”.

The undercover Israelis used weapons fitted with silencers. Article 18 of the Geneva Conventions stipulates that a building designated as a civilian hospital, and in extension the patients and staff within it, cannot be the target of attack.

The Jenin Brigade mourned the three men as its members in a statement, announcing that Mohammad Ghazawi was a co-founder of the Brigade in 2021.

To learn more about what happened and how the people of Jenin responded, read the latest dispatch from our West Bank correspondent: