The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry announced that six Palestinians were shot dead in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the Israeli army entered the camp at dawn and said its teams were prevented from entering the camp by soldiers.
The Red Crescent also claimed that a 16-year-old young man who was injured in the face by shrapnel from an explosion was detained by the Israeli army in one of its ambulances and released shortly afterwards.
According to the same source, a 26-year-old young woman was “beaten by the Israeli army” and taken to the hospital.
According to an AFP photographer on site, the Israeli army was still in the camp on Wednesday morning. The Israeli army contacted by AFP did not immediately comment.
The Palestinian Red Crescent also said it had treated 26 wounded in the West Bank in the last 24 hours, including four from bullets, in the cities of Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Toubas and Qalqilya.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank since October 7.
On October 7, Hamas, which seized power in Gaza in 2007, launched an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli authorities.
In response, the Israeli army decided to “annihilate” the Palestinian Islamist movement and has been relentlessly bombing the Gaza Strip ever since. According to the Hamas government, at least 14,000 Palestinians were killed, two-thirds of them women and children.