The Israeli agents with a history of dressing like Palestinians

Disguised as Palestinian medics, patients and civilians, a group of Israeli undercover agents descended upon Jenin's Ibn Sina Hospital on Tuesday and killed three people.

The special forces involved were the latest in a long history of undercover Israeli agents pretending to be Palestinian.

The agents are known in Arabic as mustaribeen, which means to "dress and act like an Arab", and  in Hebrew as mistaarivim, a derivative of the Arabic word.

Their existence goes as far back as the British Mandate of Palestine in the first half of the 20th century, during which British authorities worked with Zionist militias to infiltrate Arab populations in the region. 

"Mistaarivim started as an undercover unit in the Palmach division, which was part of the terrorist militia of Haganah, the core of the Israeli army," Emad Moussa, a researcher specialising in political psychology in Israel and Palestine, told Middle East Eye. 

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Mustaribeen: The Israeli undercover agents with a history of dressing like Palestinians