A Palestinian member of Islamic Jihad involved in several anti-Israel attacks was “eliminated” by an Israeli drone strike in the Jenin sector of the occupied West Bank on Thursday evening, the army said on Friday.
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The attack targeted “Yassir Hanoun, a resident of Jenin and Islamic Jihad terrorist who was previously detained for his involvement in the terrorist organization's military activities,” the army said in a statement. He was “preparing for another attack,” the text says.
The car was struck on a road in the densely populated Jenin refugee camp below the northern West Bank city of the same name. On site, the remains of the almost completely destroyed vehicle burned in the middle of a street, just a few meters from a building, AFP noted on Thursday evening.
“Two successive rockets hit the car,” Usayd Shelbi told AFP, who was present at the time of the attack, which he said caused the weapons inside the vehicle to explode.
On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry reported a “bomb attack on a car in Jenin camp,” reporting one death and many injuries.
Since the Gaza war began on October 7, deadly incidents have become increasingly common in the West Bank, between attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians, attacks by Palestinians on Israelis and almost daily raids by the Israeli army.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 360 people have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the war began on October 7, which Israel began following an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Ramallah. The year 2023 was one of the deadliest in the conflict since 2005.
In late January, three young Palestinians – two members of Islamic Jihad and one of Hamas – were killed by Israeli agents disguised as doctors while staying at Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, an operation condemned by the World Health Organization (WHO). ).