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Israel troops kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank hospital: ministry
(BSS/AFP) - Undercover Israeli troops raided a West Bank hospital and shot dead three Palestinians earlyTuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, while the army said the threebelonged to a Hamas "terrorist cell".
"This morning three young men were martyred by the bullets of the occupation(Israeli) forces, who stormed the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin and shot them,"the health ministry in Ramallah said.
Hospital director Naji Nazzal told AFP that "a group of Israeli forcesentered the facility undercover and assassinated the men". They used weaponsfitted with silencers, he said.
The army said troops "neutralised" the men who were hiding in the hospital inthe north of the occupied West Bank.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa named the three men as MuhammadJalamnah, Muhammad Ayman Ghazawi and Basel Ayman Ghazawi.
"The operation was carried out at the hospital's rehabilitation ward whereBasel Ghazawi had been undergoing treatment," its director said.
The Israeli army charged that Jalamnah was a "Hamas terrorist" hiding in thehospital. Two other "terrorists who were hiding inside the hospital were"neutralised" along with him.
Jalamnah was involved in "significant terrorist activity" and was known fordistributing weapons and ammunition for use in shootings, the army added.
"Jalamnah planned to carry out a terror attack in the immediate future andused the hospital as a hiding place and therefore was neutralised."