Jérusalem - Un Palestinien, parent de l’auteur d’une attaque anti-israélienne hospitalisé à Hébron, en Cisjordanie occupée, a été tué dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi dans un raid des forces spéciales israéliennes dans l’hôpital, a indiqué le ministère palestinien de la Santé.
Abdallah Azzam Shalaldeh , âgé de 27 ans, a été tué par une unité des moustarabine (composés de soldats infiltrés) à l’hôpital de Hébron, a indiqué cette source.
Le ministère a précisé que 21 agents de l’unité des moustarabine avait mené le raid dans la chambre de Azzam Shalaldeh, dans le département de chirurgie, touchant mortellement son cousin Abdallah de plusieurs balles.
Le Shin Bet, le service de sécurité intérieure israélien, a confirmé dans un communiqué le raid, précisant que les forces israéliennes avaient tiré lorsqu’un proche de Azzam Shalaldeh avait tenté de s’opposer à son arrestation de ce dernier.
Selon le Shin Bet, un raid des forces spéciales a été mené pour arrêter Azzam Shalaldeh, fils d’une famille de militants du Hamas, auteur d’une attaque au couteau le 25 octobre lors de laquelle un Israélien avait été grièvement blessé près de la colonie de Mezad, près de Hébron. L’assaillant avaient alors réussi à prendre la fuite.
Lors de l’arrestation, un des proches (de Azzam Shalaldeh) a été blessé par balles alors qu’il attaquait les forces (israéliennes), précise le Shin Bet.
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Undercover Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead a Palestinian during a hospital raid in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses and hospital staff said.
Abdullah Azzam Shalaldah , 28, was shot several times by forces who raided the surgery unit of al-Ahli hospital in order to detain his cousin, Azzam Ezzat Shalaldah, 20, who was shot by an Israeli settler last month, hospital staff told Ma’an.
Abdullah and another relative were in the hospital visiting Azzam when around 20 undercover Israeli soldiers entered the hospital at 3:00 a.m., witnesses said.
The forces tied up the relative while Abdullah, who was in the bathroom at the time, entered the room and was shot dead on scene.
The undercover forces then retreated from the hospital with Azzam, taking him into custody, witnesses added.
An Israeli army spokesperson was unable to comment on the presence of undercover forces during the raid, while Israeli media reported that the forces arrived in two large vans and entered with someone pretending to be pregnant.
The army spokesperson told Ma’an that a combined force of Israeli army and police members had entered the hospital in order to detain Azzam, when an “additional suspect attacked the forces.”
The forces responded with live fire, killing the man, the spokesperson confirmed.
The spokesperson said that the forces detained Azzam on the grounds that he “stabbed an Israeli in the chest in Gush Etzion” on Oct. 25, wounding him severely, adding that the man he stabbed shot Azzam as he fled the scene.
The spokesperson added that the Shalaldah family are “known Hamas operatives.”
Palestinian security sources told Ma’an on Oct. 25 following the attack that Azzam was shot by an Israeli settler.
A spokesperson for Hadassah hospital said at the time that the settler, 58, had received a light “stab” wound to his chest, and had possibly been hit with a stone in his head.
Palestinian witnesses told Ma’an that they believed that the alleged Palestinian attacker had fled the scene unharmed and that Azzam had been working in agricultural fields when he was shot.
