United Nations rights experts warned Friday that killings by alleged undercover Israeli agents in a West Bank hospital last week could constitute war crimes and urging an investigation.
Israel’s “apparent extrajudicial killings” of three Palestinian men in a hospital in the northern city of Jenin on January 29 may amount to “grave violations” of international law, five independent experts said in a statement.
The Israeli military has said forces entered the Ibn Sina Hospital to target a “Hamas terrorist cell”.
Closed-circuit television footage tweeted by the Palestinian foreign ministry and said to be from the hospital shows armed men and women, disguised in medical uniforms or civilian clothes, moving through its corridors.
The video shows the Israeli agents using a baby carrier and a wheelchair as props.
The experts said that Israeli forces entered a rehabilitation ward…
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