One Palestinian killed, 5 injured in Israeli airstrike on West Bank refugee camp

A Palestinian has been killed and four others sustained injuries in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle targeted a house in al-Manshiya neighborhood of Nur Shams refugee camp, located three kilometers east of Tulkarm, on Sunday afternoon.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 24-year-old Saeed Izzat Jaber lost his life during the bombing, while five others were injured.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances rushed to the camp following the Israeli airstrike, but were unable to enter the targeted house due to a raging fire.

Civil defense teams could finally extinguish the fire after hours, and worked with local residents to search under the rubble for casualties.

WAFA noted that a number of residential buildings surrounding and close to the house were badly damaged as a result of the bombing.

According to Palestinian security sources, the targeted house belonged to Jaber’s uncle. Jabar was reportedly a commander of the Tulkarm Brigade of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement, and wanted by the Israeli army.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that two of those injured in the airstrike are in a critical condition.

Earlier, Israeli forces had stormed multiple towns across the West Bank overnight Sunday, assaults Palestinians. The incursions were faced with heavy resistance from local fighters, and confrontations erupted in several locations.

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Israeli soldiers carried out a raid on the village of Qusra, located 28 kilometers (17.3 miles) southeast of Nablus, sparking clashes with local residents.  

During the incursion into the town of Sarra, Palestinians retaliated by throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces.

Israeli forces also conducted raids against the town of Jit, located 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) west of Nablus, and Deir Abu Mash'al village.

Furthermore, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Qalqas. Gunfire was reported near a gathering of Israeli forces at the village entrance.

Since Israel unleashed a war on the besieged Gaza Strip in early October 2023, casualties have been rising in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily Israeli raids into villages and cities in the occupied territories.

More than 550 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or extremist Jewish settlers since the war began. Over 9,300 Palestinians have been detained as well.

At least 37,877 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past eight months during the regime’s genocidal war.

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