At least seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire attacks on Tuesday. in separate incidents in the West Bank occupied, the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which governs small parts of the territory, confirmed. Israeli forces confirmed targeting an armed militia “cell” in the area, without giving further details.
Two of the deceased were targeted by a drone. from Army Israeli Army during Tuesday morning in the Qabatiya area in the northern West Bank. Medical sources say that one of the deceased is a man identified as Mohammad Hassan Asous, 42, who was hit by shrapnel after the drone explosion. The other deceased was identified as 38-year-old Shawqi Fayyad Asous.
The official Palestinian news agency claimed that Israeli forces have been conducting a raid for the past eight hours in the same locality, where clashes with militiamen are taking place. The Red Crescent Palestine claimed to have transferred to the hospital a 16 year-old minor, wounded in the foot by bullet fragments during this raid.
In the same locality, three other Palestinian youths were shot and killed by the Israeli army. on Tuesday afternoon, confirmed the Ministry of Health Palestinian. Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at a vehicle carrying two of the youths and the third died after being shot while standing on the roof of his house.
Meanwhile, in the village of Tamun, located in the northern West Bank region of Tubas, at least two Palestinians were killed in another Israeli raid. The body of one of the dead is being held by Israeli forces.He has not yet been identified, according to the PNA Ministry of Health.
Palestinian media claim that Israeli forces last night began a raid on Tamun and the nearby Far’a refugee camp, where a military bulldozer caused damage to sanitation and water systems. and a centrally located market. “We commend the heroic response of the resistance to the occupation’s incursions and affirm that the assassinations will not stem the tide of resistance in the West Bank,” a statement from Hamas about these deaths.
Occupied West Bank experiences its greatest spiral of violence. since 2005. So far in 2024, some 428 Palestinians have been killed in the territory by Israeli fire, most of them militia members from the refugeesbut also civilians, including more than 70 minors.
The Israeli Army intensified its already frequent incursions into the occupied West Bank following the Hamas attacks of 7 October and, since then, more than 770 Palestinians have been killed in violent incidents with Israelmainly from troop fire, although at least a dozen were killed by settlers. On the Israeli side, 39 people have been killed this year, mostly in attacks by Palestinians, although at least four soldiers were killed in military raids in the West Bank.