(Jerusalem) The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had killed the leader of the Islamic Jihad of the Nour Shams Palestinian refugee camp in Tulkarem, in the West Bank, the day before.
“A plane struck the Tulkarem area and eliminated Mohammed Abdullah, leader of the Islamic Jihad terrorist network in Nour Shams,” the army said in a statement, which also claimed to have killed another fighter.
According to her, Abdullah was the successor of Mohammed Jaber, known as “Abou Choujaa”, killed on August 29 in an Israeli raid against the Nour Shams camp.
Islamic Jihad, an Islamist movement with a strong presence in refugee camps in the northern West Bank, did not immediately confirm.
The Israeli army accuses Mohammed Abdullah of being “involved in numerous attacks in the region,” according to a statement published on Telegram.
In Nour Shams, the armed branches of the various Palestinian movements regularly announce having lost men, in fights against soldiers or during strikes by Israeli aircraft.
More than 13,000 Palestinians are crammed into a fifth of a square kilometer in the Nour Chams refugee camp, opened in 1952 to accommodate Palestinians who fled or were forced to flee villages around Haifa, on the coast, in the creation of Israel four years earlier.
According to the UN which manages it, it is one of the 19 camps in the West Bank most affected by health problems.