Israeli strikes kill six Palestinians, injure several in ongoing West Bank onslaught

At least six Palestinians have been killed, and several others injured, in separate Israeli air strikes and raids across the West Bank amid continuous assaults and deadly incursions by the Israeli military over the past few weeks.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing a brief statement from the Ministry of Health, reported that an Israeli drone strike hit a car in the town of Qabatiya, south of the city of Jenin, on Saturday night, killing two young Palestinians.

The attack injured a number of passersby and damaged several nearby cars as well.

 Local sources identified the martyrs as Saleh Zakarnah and Abdul Issam Alawneh – two resistance fighters from the Qabatiya Brigade.

The Quds News Network reported that Alawneh was freed as part of a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hamas resistance movement in November 2023.

During the brief truce, some 150 Palestinian abductees held illegally in Israeli jails were released in exchange for 105 Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Also on Saturday night, another Israeli drone strike in Jenin killed two more youths who were on a motorcycle.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its medics evacuated the bodies of the victims from the eastern neighborhood of the city.

The two young Palestinian men were identified as Tammam al-Saadi and Nour al-Saadi.

Palestinian teen killed in Israeli drone attack on occupied West Bank’s Jenin

A Palestinian teenager has been killed and two others were injured in an Israeli drone strike on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Elsewhere in the densely populated Tulkarm refugee camp, a 51-year-old man died of his wounds after an Israeli sniper shot him in the chest during a military raid.

WAFA identified him as Wahid Omar Wahid Madi Sabbagh.

The news agency, citing local sources, said Sabbagh was left to bleed out on the floor of his house after he was shot and that Israeli forces prevented Palestinian Red Crescent medics from reaching him.

On Sunday morning, an elderly Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the Jenin refugee camp.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its emergency teams transported the body of 73-year-old Walid Lahlouh from the entrance of the camp to the hospital following the deadly shooting by Israeli soldiers.

The latest killings come as Israeli forces also continued to bomb and demolish homes in Tulkarm, forcibly displacing dozens of families. They also laid siege to the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital as well as the Israa Specialized Hospital.

The West Bank has experienced heightened tensions following Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed at least 47,487 individuals and injured 111,588 others since October 7, 2023.

The Israeli regime, failing to achieve any of its war objectives including the “elimination” of Hamas, was forced to agree to a ceasefire agreement with the resistance group which went into effect in Gaza on January 19.

Since the fragile Gaza ceasefire took effect, Israel has increased its assaults on the West Bank, particularly in and around the city of Jenin, killing at least 25 Palestinians.

More than 20,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the camp, where many homes have been demolished and roads have been dug up by Israeli bulldozers.

Since October 7, 2023, at least 893 Palestinians have been killed and more than 6,700 injured by Israeli forces in West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

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