Four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli army operation launched overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in a refugee camp adjoining Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, according to a new report provided by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
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“Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics have just transported an 18-year-old young man who was killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarem. This brings the total number of deaths to four,” the organization said in a message on the social network X.
The Israeli army announced shortly after midnight (10 p.m. GMT) that it was carrying out an operation in this refugee camp located in the northwest of the occupied West Bank.
“During the operation, an aircraft struck two terrorists who posed a threat to our forces,” she said in a brief message.
In the process, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health confirmed that the remains of two of them were transported to a hospital in Tulkarem.
Contacted Thursday by AFP to confirm this assessment of the Red Crescent, the Israeli army indicated that it was in the process of “verifying”.
AFP journalists on site noted at 8 a.m. GMT that the Israeli army was no longer in the camp.
On Wednesday, three Palestinians, including an Islamic Jihad commander, were killed in an Israeli strike on a car in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed factions in the far north of the West Bank.
Violence has intensified in the West Bank, territory occupied since 1967 by Israel, since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the unprecedented attack by commandos of the Islamist movement in Israel on October 7.
According to the Palestinian Authority, more than 435 Palestinians have been killed by fire from Israeli soldiers or settlers since then, and thousands more have been arrested.