Two Israeli airstrikes hit the Jenin refugee camp, while clashes with Israeli forces kill four Palestinians near Tubas.
At least four people were killed in two Israeli airstrikes on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to reporters from Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Reporting from Jenin, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim said Tuesday morning’s attacks came after Israeli forces invaded the area on Monday afternoon, targeting an exchange office and claiming it was linked to the financing of the Hamas movement that governs Gaza.
Ibrahim reported that four Palestinians were killed in Aqqaba, near Tubas, where an Israeli attack sparked an armed clash.
“According to local sources, the Palestinians discovered a disguised Israeli unit surrounding one of the houses, provoking armed clashes. Then, Israeli forces used force against the Palestinians, some of them doing nothing, not participating,” she said.
Al Jazeera spoke to Mohaidden Abu Sbaih, a witness to one of the Israeli airstrikes in Jenin, who said that Israeli bulldozers appeared in the area, while warplanes appeared overhead.
Within five minutes, he said, the Israeli plane hit a building in the neighborhood.
Following the attack, community members located the remains of four people killed in the attack, he added.
“They are gangs,” said Abu Sbaih, referring to the Israeli military.
‘Politics of murder’
Fatah, the Palestinian movement that leads the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, condemned the Israeli attacks, saying that “the bloody Israeli policy of assassinations” would not prevent the Palestinian people from defending “their national rights”.
It said in a statement that the attacks on Jenin and Tubas “confirm, without any doubt, that the extremist occupation government seeks a systematic escalation, with official American approval, support and prejudice, to implement its plans aimed at liquidating the rights of our people and displace them.” ”.
Fatah called on the international community “to play its role in the immediate cessation of the war of extermination” against the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Israeli forces arrested 16 people in the West Bank over the past day.
The arrests took place in the provinces of Hebron, Bethlehem, Tubas, Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus, Jericho and Qalqilya, it said in its latest update.
This brings the total number of Israeli arrests in the West Bank since October 7 to 9,970, the group said.
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