The massive Israeli military offensive into the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, has resulted in the killing of 13 Palestinians, including six children.
The army started the offensive at dawn Thursday and only withdrew 27 hours later on Friday morning.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that Israeli soldiers did not only use live ammunition but also armed drones, some loaded with explosives.
WAFA News Agency said seven of them were moved to Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem, while ambulances and medics could not evacuate five of the slain Palestinians due to the Israeli siege on the refugee camp and had to place their corpses in the mosque.
The Israeli army also cut the electricity and water lines and isolated the refugee camp during its offensive, in addition to attacking and firing at medics and journalists who tried to enter it.
The army also deployed sharpshooters on rooftops and opened fired at the Palestinians, while its heavy military bulldozers ravaged through its alleys, street and cars, and caused excessive damage to homes and property, leaving the refugee camp without infrastructure.
Only after the army withdrew from the refugee camp that the medics were able to transfer the five slain Palestinians and twenty wounded to the hospital.
The slain Palestinians were officially identified as:
- Amer Faisal Ghannam, 73.
- Yousef Omar Zaghdad, 12.
- Odai Ma’moun Abu Al-Haija, 15.
- Qaisar Jamal Khalil, 36.
- Mojahed Mohammad Sa’aida, 16.
- Osama Saed Khalil, 19.
- Mohammad Fathi Hamed, 33.
- Ali Abdullah Abu Khazna, 15.
- Raed Ahmad Hamidi, 19.
- Ahmad Faisal Ghannam, 25.
- Sari Odai Taha Sanad, 15.
- Taha Ibrahim Mahameed, 16.
- Jamil Jamal Ja’ar, 21.
