The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Israeli forces and warplanes killed at least eight Palestinians, including two women and a teenager, in attacks on Tulkarem and Noor Shams refugee camps in the occupied West Bank. announced that he had been killed.
The Ministry of Health said seven people were killed in Israeli drone strikes and military gunfire in the Tulkarem refugee camp, and one in the nearby Nour Shams camp, following a day of bloody raids by Israeli forces that began at dawn on Tuesday. It was announced that a person had died. .
The ministry said that among the seven people killed in the Israeli attack on Tulkarem were two Palestinian women, Khaula Ali Abdullah Abd, 53, and Bala Khalid Hussein, 30, and an 18-year-old Palestinian woman. It was announced that Fatih Said Salem Obaid was included.
The state-run Wafa news agency said the boy was shot in the chest and abdomen and died, while two women were also killed in the drone attack.
The victims of the Nur Shams camp were Mahmoud Muhammad Khalid Amar, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers and later found dead on the ground in the camp’s Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Mosque area; Wafa also reported that it has been identified.
According to the news agency, several people were also injured in an Israeli drone attack in Nur Shams.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had killed one Palestinian, arrested 18 others and seized dozens of weapons in an “anti-terrorism” operation in Tulkarem.
The Israeli military later confirmed that Israeli aircraft had attacked the Noor Shams refugee camp.
The Hamas militant group al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that two of its members were killed in Tulkarem.
An improvised explosive device planted by Palestinian fighters detonated during an Israeli raid on Tulkarem early Wednesday morning, striking the vehicle in which Israeli Menashe Brigade commander Col. Ayub Kayuf was traveling, injuring him and requiring medical evacuation. announced that it was necessary. .
From late Tuesday into Wednesday morning, Israeli military raids and further shootings of Palestinians were reported across the occupied West Bank.
Wafa reported that two Palestinian men and a 15-year-old boy were shot and wounded during an Israeli military raid on the town of Beit Huluik, east of Nablus.
Four Palestinian youths were also shot and wounded in the town of Beit Ummal, north of Hebron, when Israeli forces at a checkpoint opened fire on the vehicle they were traveling in, Wafa reported. According to the news agency, one of the four people is in serious condition.
Another Palestinian man was stopped and searched by Israeli forces in the Old City of Hebron. Wafa reported that after his release, he was shot in the thigh by the military for no reason.
The news agency said that in Tuesday’s attack on Tulkarem, Israeli bulldozers also destroyed infrastructure, including homes, shops, part of the wall of the As-Salam mosque and part of the camp’s water network.
Since the Israeli war in Gaza began in October 2023 following Hamas attacks on southern Israel, Israeli military attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank have increased in intensity and violence.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said last week that 968 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank between January 2023 and November 2024. Reported.
According to the OCHA report, 210 of the dead were Palestinian children.
