Three people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack near the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian media reported on Wednesday.
“An Israeli plane fired at least two rockets at a group of people near Jenin camp, killing three people and wounding several others,” Palestinian news agency Wafa said, citing local sources.
The Israeli military said in a statement it had been conducting “anti-terrorism activities” in the area but did not mention any casualties.
It said it was responding to an attack by so-called “armed terrorists” who “shot and pelted Israeli security forces with explosive devices.” In response, one of their attack drones “hit the terrorists.”
“Israeli security forces were not injured,” the army added.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 95 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Israel declared war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip earlier this month in retaliation for the Palestinian Islamist movement’s attack on its territory.
On October 7, Hamas commandos entered southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and carried out a bloody attack on civilians on a scale and with violence not seen since Israel’s founding in 1948.
According to the latest figures from Israeli authorities, which have identified more than 220 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, more than 1,400 people have been killed on the Israeli side since October 7, mostly civilians massacred by Hamas that day.
On Tuesday, Hamas claimed that 5,791 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli retaliatory bombings since the conflict began, most of them civilians.