On Thursday, Israeli occupation soldiers killed five Palestinians in Tammun town, south of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part.
Media sources reported that Israeli special forces invaded the town of Tammun, south of Tubas, on Thursday morning, encircling a residential apartment in a three-story building at the town’s center.
According to local sources and eyewitnesses, an exchange of fire erupted between the invading Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters sheltering inside the besieged home.
They added that the army then launched Energa anti-tank grenades and heavy gunfire on the building, followed by bulldozer-led demolitions that destroyed sections of the structure.
The Mayor of Tammun, Samir Qteishat, said the soldiers took the corpses of four of the slain Palestinians, while the fifth was later found burnt and his body severely mutilated under the rubble.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
- Wadea’ Eyad Ahmad Bani Odah (19 years old)
- Ibrahim Yassin Ahmad Bani Odah (24 years old)
- Rida Kamal Mahmoud Bani Odah (22 years old)
- Islam Azmi Hussein Bani Odah (22 years old)
- Saher Nabil Bisharat (23 years old)
Residents gathered to lay Saher Bisharat to rest, while Israeli forces continue to withhold the bodies of the other four.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said the five Palestinians were members of its “Tubas Battalion”, and added that “its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with the invading forces and confirmed injuries among the Israeli army.”
Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) mourned the slain fighters and called for “mobilization and escalation of resistance against the occupation and its paramilitary colonizers.”
The invasion is part of an ongoing military escalation across the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces have intensified attacks, demolitions, and forced displacements.
As the Israeli genocide in Gaza intensifies, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have escalated their military offensive across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, resulting in the killing of more than 978 Palestinians, injuring thousands, and abducting over 17,000 people since October 7, 2023.
281 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 210 in Tulkarem, 116 in Nablus, 92 in Tubas, 83 in Hebron, 63 in Ramallah, 53 in Jerusalem, 36 in Qalqilia, 26 in Bethlehem, and 12 in Jericho and northern plains.
This year alone, 143 Palestinians, including 24 children and 5 women, have been killed in the West Bank, one of the slain Palestinians was killed by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers.
In the destroyed, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, the ongoing Israeli genocide has resulted in the killing of more than 52,928 Palestinians, including at least 15,626 children, 9,807 women, 3,855 elderly individuals, 237 journalists, and 23 medics. At least 119,864 people—mostly children, women, and the elderly—have been wounded since October 7, 2023.
