Five Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on West Bank camp

27/8/2024 6:24

        Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on the occupied West Bank on Monday in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
        
        The Israeli military said its aircraft struck a militant operations center in the camp and more details would follow.
        
        Four loud explosions were heard after an Israeli drone targeted a house in the camp, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said.
        
        Clashes in the occupied West Bank have risen sharply since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza last year as Israeli forces have stepped up operations against armed militant groups, including Hamas and the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad.
        
        Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested and at least 637 killed, according to Palestinian Health Ministry figures. Many of them are armed fighters but others stone-throwing youths or uninvolved civilians.