Eight Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank in 24 hours, including five in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups in the north of the territory occupied by Israel for 56 years, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Sunday.
According to the ministry, five people were killed by Israeli army shelling in Jenin as numerous armored vehicles entered the city, which was recently the scene of the deadliest Israeli attack in the West Bank in almost 20 years (14 dead). to the UN.
Medical sources told AFP that 15 people were injured, while witnesses reported that an Israeli drone carried out an airstrike on the city’s refugee camp.
According to other witnesses, the Israeli army surrounded the Jenin public hospital and the Ibn Sina Clinic. Soldiers searched ambulances. They also reported violent fights involving automatic weapons.
The Israeli army, for its part, assured that it had carried out “anti-terror activities in the Jenin refugee camp” on the night from Saturday to Sunday.
She said she had arrested a man she said was the perpetrator of an attack that killed two Israelis in August.
In addition, a 25-year-old doctor was killed outside his home in Qabatiya, near Jenin, on Saturday morning. Another Palestinian was killed in el-Bireh, near Ramallah, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority.
Another man was killed in an Israeli army attack on a village south of Nablus on Saturday evening, according to the ministry.
The bloody Hamas attack on October 7 left 1,200 people dead in Israel, most of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities. In return, Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, killing nearly 15,000 people, according to the Hamas government.
There has also been violence in the West Bank since October 7th. According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, more than 230 Palestinians were killed there by Israeli settlers and soldiers.