‎Palestinian killed after Israeli commandos storm hospital

A 28-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by an undercover Israeli military unit when it stormed the al-Ahli hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.

An estimated 21 undercover officers – known as the Mustaarabin – shot dead Abdullah al-Shalaldeh before dawn on Thursday morning while raiding the hospital room of the victim’s cousin, Azzam, according to a statement by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health.

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The Israeli commandos had come to question Azzam, who was in a surgery unit of the hospital awaiting an operation
after being shot by an Israeli settler last month, when they shot dead Abdullah.

Azzam, who has been accused of stabbing an Israeli man, was subsequently arrested.

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