An Israeli drone strike assassinated five Palestinians, including two children, and injured others, on Monday night, in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that five slain Palestinians arrived at the Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem after an Israeli drone strike targeted a home in the Nur Shams refugee camp.
Medical sources identified the five slain citizens as the child, Adnan Ayser Jaber, 15, the child, Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Alian, 16, Mohannad Kamal Mohammed Qaraawi, 20, Jibril Ghassan Ismail Jibril, 20, from Qalqilia, and Mohammad Ali Mustafa Youssef, 49.
Sources added that an armed Israeli drone fired several missiles at a home in the Al-Manshiya neighborhood in the camp, killing the five citizens and injuring others.
WAFA correspondent said that four strong explosions could be heard in the city of Tulkarem, its suburbs, and camps, while eyewitness described huge explosions and large clouds of smoke rising from a home in the camp.
The national factions called for a general strike on Tuesday, to mourn the slain men and children killed by the Israeli occupation.
The Times of Israel reported that the Israeli army confirmed that they carried out a drone strike against a so-called “command room belonging to local terror operatives” in the Nur Shams camp.
It added that the strike targeted an alleged “command room”, and said that the slain young man, Jibril Ghassan Ismail Jibril, 20, from Qalqilia, was a member of the Hamas resistance movement, and had been released in the prisoner deal in November 2023.
The army claimed that the slain young man had been abducted and imprisoned for allegedly hurling explosive devices, throwing rocks, and being a member of Hamas.
Israeli forces have now killed 650 Palestinians, including 150 children, and injured 5,400 in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has killed 40,435 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, and injured 93,534 since the beginning of its military onslaught on October 7, 2023, while thousands remain under the rubble.
