Updated: On Thursday night, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a vehicle in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, killing two Palestinians, including a child, and injuring fifteen others.
Media sources reported that a young man was killed and fifteen others were injured, including a critical injury, when an armed Israeli drone fired a missile at a vehicle in the Jenin refugee camp.
According to Dr. Wissam Bakr, the director of Jenin Governmental Hospital, the charred body of the former prisoner, Yasser Mustafa Hanoun, 21, arrived at the hospital.
Bakr added that eight other injuries arrived at the hospital, including one who was deemed in critical condition.
Yasser was the leader of the Jenin Brigade of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and was also a former political prisoner.
His brother, Ammar Hannoun, was assassinated by the Israeli army in 2006, and the cousin of two slain Palestinians, We’am Eyad Hannoun, 27, and Wisam Ziad Hannoun, 28.
Later it was announced that the critically injured citizen, identified as the child, Sa’id Raed Jaradat, 17, had succumbed to wounds sustained as a result of the drone strike. Sa’id was from Wadi Burqin area, about two kilometers to the West of Jenin city.
Meanwhile six injured citizens arrived at Ibn Sina Hospital, one of whom was seriously injured, another sustained moderate wounds and four others who sustained shrapnel injuries in their limbs, were transferred to Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin.
Since the beginning of Israel’s military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 405 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank.
