“They held the staff at gunpoint and stormed the room of Shalaldeh”, Shawar said.
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Mahmud died Friday morning in the same hospital, the hospital official said.
In the last two months, 80 Palestinians have died in the region, including 50 involved in the continuing attacks, Israeli officials say.
More than 100 Palestinians, including 49 children, were wounded.
Despite this recent violence, most Jewish Israelis didn’t make changes in their daily routine, but half of Arab Israelis did.
The raid occurred in Hebron, a volatile city in the southern West Bank that has been a frequent flashpoint of violence during weeks of Israel-Palestinian unrest.
The two dead men were identified as Ya’akov Litman and his son, Natanel. Lafi Yusif Awad was fatally injured with gunfire to the abdomen, in the Ramallah-area village of Budrus.
Earlier in the day, a Palestinian was shot dead in clashes with troops in Hebron, hospital sources said. At least 416 Palestinians, including 122 minors, have been detained by Israeli security forces in the first 12 days of November.
Human rights groups have slammed Israel’s use of force during the latest escalation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended condolences to the family and vowed Israel would find the “despicable murderers” and judge them severely.
The two reportedly discussed an Israeli request to increase annual United States military aid to Israel to $5 billion for each of the next ten years.
“All the other patients in the room started screaming while they let him bleed”.
The commandos found Shalaldeh’s brother, Bilal, in the room and tied him up on a bed, but as they were about to leave with the suspect, another of his cousins abruptly entered the room.
The hospital, however, provided security camera video to The Associated Press showing about a dozen men walking down a hospital corridor, pushing someone covered in a blanket in a wheelchair.
But the medical charity Doctors Without Borders told Ma’an News Agency that Azzam al-Shalalda was being treated in its Mental Health Support Program for victims of political violence.
An undercover team also carried out a raid on a hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus last month, seizing a suspect in the murder of an Israeli couple days earlier.
Considered holy to Muslims and Jews, the move into the compound by hardline Jews was supported by Israeli forces, who attacked Palestinian worshipers there. The Israeli military’s own regulations allow soldiers in the occupied West Bank to open fire only when their lives are in imminent danger.
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Media said there were seven people in the vehicle, members of the same settler family living in the West Bank who were on their way to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath when they were attacked.
