Israeli forces assassinated four Palestinian young men, on Thursday, and seriously injured three others, after a drone strike targeted a vehicle in the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that four citizens were killed and three others were seriously injured as a result of a drone strike on a vehicle, in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
فيديو يوثّق لحظة قصف جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي لمركبة استقلها 4 شبان استشهدوا في #طولكرم. pic.twitter.com/OM36BMt8UY
— موقع عرب 48 (@arab48website) December 19, 2024
Media sources identified the slain men as Mohammad Nafeez Ahmad Rahaymeh, 31, Tariq Mahmoud Mohammad Al-Dash, 30, and the brothers, Dosm Sufyan Ahmad Al-Awfi, 19, and Mohammad Rahim Ahmad Al-Awfi, 26.
An Israeli air strike bombed a vehicle in Tulkarm city. pic.twitter.com/5UFN2EJ672
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) December 19, 2024
Sources added that an armed Israeli drone fired a missile at a vehicle in the Balawneh neighborhood in the center of the Tulkarem camp, killing four and injuring three seriously.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its ambulance crews transported the bodies of two young men to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, from the site of the airstrike in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
Local Palestinians transported the bodies of the two other slain men to the hospital in civilian vehicles.
The occupation army and the Shin Bet, in a statement, said that a drone strike killed four alleged “gunmen” in a purported effort to “clamp down on rising terror activity”.
Hours after the airstrike a large army force, accompanied by military bulldozers, invaded the city of Tulkarem, besieging and destroying infrastructure in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 823 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 169 children, and injured 6,500.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 222 in Jenin, 187 in Tulkarem, 93 in Nablus, 77 in Hebron, 66 in Tubas, 59 in Ramallah, 50 in occupied Jerusalem, 33 in Qalqilia, 20 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 45,126 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, and injured 107,338 citizens, while the bodies of thousands of citizens remain buried under the rubble of the devastated coastal enclave.
