Israeli sources announced, on Wednesday, the execution of a Palestinian man, and the confiscation of his body, from the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem city in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Ma’an News Agency quoted the Israeli Channel 12 reported that “A young man was killed in Tulkarem, the equipment in his possession was confiscated, and his body was detained.”


Media sources said that occupation forces assassinated the young man, Khaled Mustafa Amer, 23, a resident of the town of Allar, during an ambush operation in the Al-Manshiya neighborhood of the Nur Shams refugee camp.

The Jordanian Roya News quoted the Israeli Channel 13 which reported that one soldier from the Maglan Unit was wounded during the exchange of fire between the army and Palestinian resistance fighters in the Nur Shams camp.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), mourned the loss of the slain young man, Amer, 23, and confirmed that he was a resistance fighter who carried out an ambush against an Israeli infantry unit in the Al-Manshiya neighborhood of the Nur Shams refugee camp.


According to the Shireen Observatory, occupation forces have killed 47 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including 5 children, 2 women, and 2 elderly citizens, since the beginning of Israel’s “Iron Wall” assault against the governorates of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, on January 21.

According to the available information, Israeli forces have killed 25 Palestinians in Jenin, 11 in Tubas, 9 in Tulkarem, and 2 in Nablus, withholding the bodies of 8 slain citizens.