Thousands of Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank took part in the funeral procession yesterday for three Palestinians who were assassinated earlier in the day by an Israeli army unit in Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital.

The funeral procession began in front of the Martyr Khalil Suleiman Government Hospital in Jenin, from where the bodies of the three martyrs were carried shoulder high through the streets of the city and its refugee camp.
According to hospital spokesperson Tawfiq Al-Shobaki, there was no exchange of fire when the killings were carried out. Basel Al-Ghazawi, he pointed out, had been a patient since 25 October and was partially paralysed.
“What happened is a precedent,” said Al-Shobaki. “There has never been an assassination inside a hospital. There were arrests and assaults, but not an assassination.”