Man killed in Israeli security action at Palestinian hospital

“It’s beyond time to cut off this gravy train which has only ensured blood – mostly from Palestinian victims – will continue to be shed in Israel/Palestine”. Amid nearly 60 raids into Palestinian communities, Israel arrested 118 Palestinians, including more than two dozen children. These deaths brought to 13 the number of Israelis killed since the start of October.

Since mid-September, Palestinians have killed 14 Israelis in a series of stabbings, shootings and vehicular attacks that began in Jerusalem but spread to the West Bank.

Medical sources told Palestinian news site Maan that 23-year-old university student Hassan Jihad Albu was killed by a bullet straight to the chest, which penetrated his heart and killed him instantly.

A third Palestinian, 22-year-old Mohammed al-Shalalda, succumbed to wounds sustained in Thursday’s clashes with the Israeli army. Video of the aftermath of the incident shows Mahdi al-Muhtasib writhing in pain on the ground before an Israeli soldier, standing a distance of a few metres away, shoots him again. Critics say the tactic amounts to collective punishment. They entered with someone pretending to be pregnant.

The Israeli public radio said a Palestinian has left his auto and shot the vehicle.

“They put us up against the wall, asking us to lift our hands up”, said the nurse, who asked to be identified only by the initials SZ for fear of Israeli retaliation.

“Their mission is basically to undermine the enemy, terrorize the enemy, not make the enemy feel safe where he is and to apprehend the enemy”, said Samuel M. Katz, whose book, “The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel’s Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism”, chronicles the actions of Yamas during the second Palestinian uprising a decade ago.

Ten agents barged into a hospital room to detain Azaam Shalaalda for his alleged involvement in the October 25 stabbing of an Israeli in the Gush Etzion settlement.

Mourners carry the body of Abdullah al-Shalalda, killed by Israeli gunmen disguised as Palestinians in a Hebron hospital in the early hours of 12 November, during his funeral that same day.

Palestinian Health Minister Jawad Awad accused Israeli security forces of “executing” Abdallah al-Shalalda, who he said was escorting a relative inside the facility.

In 1994, Israeli-American Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinians as they prayed in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

The ministry said that 65 Palestinians were injured on Friday by live ammunition, five critically. He escaped by auto after the shooting. “There is a tremendous amount of risk”, he said, adding that they are crucial in both thwarting attacks and gathering intelligence. The southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron was the second city on the list of the most detentions, with 70 Palestinians detained, including 50 minors.