Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Oct. 4, 2024. (Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
"This is the worst attack we have faced in the West Bank. A place this densely populated has never been bombed by an F-16," Salam Abdelfattah Hassan Issa, director of the Al-Awda center based in Tulkarem, told L'Orient-Le Jour. The organization works with children with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) and provides home health services to women and the elderly in refugee camps.On Thursday night, an Israeli fighter jet launched a missile at a café in the lively Al-Hamam neighborhood of the Tulkarem refugee camp. This is the first attack of this type since the second Intifada, between 2000 and 2005. "As I speak to you, the number of martyrs is 18, but there are still bodies under the rubble," Issa said.The attack, coordinated by the army and the Shin Bet intelligence service, targeted Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, a senior commander of the Hamas...
"This is the worst attack we have faced in the West Bank. A place this densely populated has never been bombed by an F-16," Salam Abdelfattah Hassan Issa, director of the Al-Awda center based in Tulkarem, told L'Orient-Le Jour. The organization works with children with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) and provides home health services to women and the elderly in refugee camps.On Thursday night, an Israeli fighter jet launched a missile at a café in the lively Al-Hamam neighborhood of the Tulkarem refugee camp. This is the first attack of this type since the second Intifada, between 2000 and 2005. "As I speak to you, the number of martyrs is 18, but there are still bodies under the rubble," Issa said.The attack, coordinated by the army and the Shin Bet intelligence service, targeted Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, a senior commander of the...