Five Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the Tulkarem area of the northern occupied West Bank, the director of the local hospital said on Tuesday.
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The deceased Palestinians, men aged 21 to 29, were killed during an Israeli army operation in the town and camp of Tulkarem, hospital director Amin Khader told AFP. Thabet, where the deaths were recorded.
Witnesses at the local camp reported violent clashes and a massive deployment of Israeli forces there to arrest young people.
The Israeli army confirmed to AFP an operation in that sector of the occupied West Bank, without immediately giving reasons or commenting on Palestinian casualties.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced 14 deaths in a day of fighting in Jenin, a volatile part of the northern West Bank, in the deadliest Israeli attack on the area since at least 2005, the year the United Nations began recording Israeli deaths Ideas.
For the Israeli army, these operations are a response to a “significant increase in terrorist attacks” in the West Bank, an area occupied since 1967, with more than 550 attempted attacks since the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas began on October 7 in the Gaza Strip.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, around 180 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by shelling by Israeli soldiers or settlers since the start of this war, sparked by the deadly Hamas attack in Israel.