Israel says it killed Hamas commander

4/10/2024 6:17

        At least 18 Palestinians were killed
        in an Israeli strike on the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied
        West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursday,
        with the Israeli military saying it killed a Hamas commander.
        
        The Israeli military said in a statement that its air force
        had killed the head of Hamas' network in Tulkarm in a strike. It
        identified him as Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
        
        The Palestinian government "calls for urgent international
        action to stop the escalating massacres" against its people, it
        said in a statement.
        
        The official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency also
        condemned the attack, the Palestinian news agency WAFA said,
        adding that those attacks "will not bring security and stability
        to anyone, but will drag the region into more violence".
        
        Violence has surged in the West Bank since the start of the
        war in Gaza, with almost daily sweeps by Israeli forces that
        have involved thousands of arrests and regular gunbattles
        between security forces and Palestinian fighters.