An Israeli raid, in Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 14, 2024. (Credit: Raneen Sawafta/Reuters)
An Israeli drone killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
The Israeli military verified the deaths and claimed that the two were gunmen.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed two men had been killed in the Balata area, on the outskirts of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. A woman and a 12-year-old girl were also lightly wounded, the ministry said.
Violence in the West Bank has escalated since the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas broke out last October, with more Israeli raids, Jewish settler violence and Palestinian street attacks.
Israeli forces have killed at least 620 Palestinians in the Israeli-annexed West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of the Gaza war, according to Palestinian Health Ministry figures.
The deaths vary between armed fighters, stone-throwing youths and uninvolved civilians.
At least 30 Israelis, both soldiers and civilians, have been killed by Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank in the same period.
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