A member of the Israeli security forces walks past a bulldozer demolishing a Palestinian-owned house, located in Area C, which has been under Israeli military control since 1967, in the village of Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank, on Nov. 6, 2024. (Credit: Hazem Bader/AFP)
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Thursday that one person was killed in an Israeli strike on the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarem, shortly after the Israeli army said it had hit the town.
“A martyr shot by [Israeli] forces arrived at Tulkarem government hospital from Tulkarem camp” in the northern West Bank, the Ministry said in a statement.
A few hours earlier, the Israeli army had announced in a statement that “an air force plane had targeted a group of armed terrorists in Tulkarem." The Red Crescent reported that a 57-year-old woman had also been wounded by shrapnel in the Tulkarem camp.
The town is a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups and the target of frequent Israeli army operations.
The Ministry had announced that Israeli fire had killed another Palestinian shortly after midnight on Thursday in the nearby town of Jenin.
A Palestinian security source told AFP that it was a retired Palestinian intelligence officer, Abdallah Saadi, who was killed late on Wednesday.
Violence in the occupied West Bank, particularly in the northern areas of the territory, has escalated since the start of the war in Gaza triggered on Oct. 7, 2023 by Hamas's bloody attack on southern Israel.
According to the Ministry, Israeli troops or settlers killed at least 761 Palestinians in the West Bank during this period. According to official Israeli figures, Palestinian attacks on Israelis claimed the lives of at least 24 people over the same period.
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