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With targeted operations like this, they knew exactly who they were going after and where. That's not a defense of Israel's actions, just a statement that this isn't the sort of thing they'd do to take out some random civilians.
In fact, much the opposite. This more closely resembles the sort of action Israel could have done from the beginning to take down Hamas without destroying Gaza. It would have deprived Hamas of their propaganda wins, would have kept the world firmly on Israel's side, and would have been much more effective long-term.
Not more effective at letting them kill all the Palestinians which some of them have already admitted is what they want.
So it was targeted rather than random? Could be journalists and/or dissidents. They target those a LOT.
Unlikely to be Israeli dissidents in a ~~Gaza~~ West Bank hospital, and if they were Palestinian dissidents against Hamas, it wouldn't make any sense to target them.
And if they were journalists, we'd already be hearing about it from their publishers, as we have with other journalist killings.
The most likely scenario is that they really were members of Hamas, but that just serves to highlight that the atrocities Netanyahu's government has otherwise engaged in have been unnecessary.
Edit: Correcting myself, because accuracy is important.
Quote from the article confirming your guess:
Oh, jeez, you're right. Ugh... Getting everything confused in this mess.