30 January 2024

This is Positively UnAmerican

Of course, it's Israelis wot done it.

Special forces associated with the Shin Bet infiltrated a hospital near the Jenin refugee camp, and killed 3 militants.

The US would never do something like this.  We'd bomb the hospital.

If you don't believe me, just ask Donald Rumsfeld (You can't, he's dead).  He justified bombing a hospital in Afghanistan because Taliban were being treated there. 

I don't approve of the action, because I believe that this sort of targeted assassination, whether conducted by Israel OR the US, but it seems to me that not blowing up a hospital is preferable to blowing up a hospital:

Israeli forces dressed in doctors’ scrubs and women’s clothes have killed three Palestinian militants in an undercover operation in a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

A border police counter-terrorism unit and a unit from the internal security forces, known as the Shin Bet, entered Ibn Sina hospital on the outskirts of the city’s refugee camp early on Tuesday, CCTV footage of the aftermath of the operation showed.

The units made their way to a room on the third floor and shot all three men in the head using pistols fitted with silencers in an attack that took less than 10 minutes from start to finish, Israeli media said.

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Israel said the dead men were Mohammad Jalamana, a spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, Basel Ghazawi, of Islamic Jihad, and his brother Mohammed. All three were allegedly active in the umbrella force known as the Jenin Battalion, a newly formed group that has engaged Israeli forces in fierce fighting during raids in the lawless city over the past two years.

The Israeli authorities said the three men had been involved in planning an attack similar to the one launched by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on 7 October that killed 1,140 people, according to Israeli data, and sparked the latest war in Gaza, which has killed 26,000 people in the strip, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. About 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million population has been displaced from their homes in the dire humanitarian crisis.

Hamas claimed Jalamana as a member, while the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said the two brothers were part of their Jenin cell. . In a statement, Hamas called the killings “a vile crime that will not go without response”. It said: “The resistance forces, who have sworn to fight the occupation until it is expelled, are not afraid of the assassination policy.”

Yeah, the assassination policy is unlikely to solve things.  It will only create more terrorists.

I'm glad that they did not just drop a bomb or fire a missile at the hospital, but this is a mistake.

1 comments :

Anonymous said...

No, it's right.

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