Three Palestinians killed in airstrike in Tulkarm as resistance fighters clash with Israeli troops

Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Tulkarm refugee camp, in an attack that ignited intense confrontations between Israeli forces and resistance fighters.

Israeli troopers launched a drone strike on a house in the Tulkarm refugee camp on Thursday morning, killing three young men, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.

The ministry named the victims as Imad Tayseer Shraim, 34 , and Muawiya al-Hajj Ahmed, and Wassim Anbar, both 30 years old.

As the drone hit Tulkarm, local sources reported that Israeli military vehicles launched an incursion into the West Bank city from the west, and moved through various neighborhoods with a particular focus on the western and eastern areas.

They positioned around critical sites, such as the al-Isra Specialized Hospital, the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, and the vicinity of the District Coordination Office close to the Tulkarm camp.

Reports indicate that both public and private property, including homes and shops along the main service road, had been deliberately targeted and vandalized by Israeli forces during the eight-hour incursion.

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Hamas’s armed wing, Qassam Brigades, reported on Thursday that its Tulkarm Battalion engaged in confrontations with Israeli soldiers in the camp and detonated explosive devices targeting military vehicles.

“Our fighters continue to clash with the occupation forces and we have achieved direct hits among them,” the Qassam Brigades said.

The Quds News Network also posted a video of fire in the camp following Israel’s ground assault on the camp in the early hours of the morning.

Fire rages on following the detonation of an explosive device near an Israeli military bulldozer amid the raid in Tulkarm, according to reports.

Other groups, including the Tulkarm branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s Quds Brigades and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, joined the clashes against the Israeli army.

Moreover, the Israeli military has confirmed that one of its soldiers sustained injuries during the clashes with resistance fighters in Tulkarm and its camp.

Israeli forces also stormed several other towns across the occupied West Bank, and arrested 25 Palestinians, including two women and a child, overnight and through Thursday morning.

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 raids into villages and cities in the occupied territories.

A total of 636 Palestinians, including 147 children, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces since the beginning of Israel’s Gaza onslaught, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

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