Ammar Dweik, director-general of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Palestine, has said that the attack by Israeli forces dressed as doctors and nurses, who killed three Palestinian men, is “an assault on an institution protected by international law”.
Dweik told Al Jazeera that the men did not pose any threat to the raiding forces at the time of the attack, and that they could have been apprehended if they were wanted for alleged crimes.
“This is not the first time that the occupation has carried out an assassination inside a hospital. In 2015, Israeli forces assassinated Azzam al-Shalaldeh in the Al-Ahli Hospital in the city of Hebron in a similar manner,” he said.
“This is a major escalation in the targeting of civilians in the West Bank. Therefore, we call on relevant international organisations such as the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross to denounce these crimes and help protect health institutions.”
