“An Israeli air force aircraft struck a terrorist cell in the Nour Shams area as they were preparing an explosive device,” the Israeli army said on Telegram. Four people “were killed in the bombing of the Nour Shams camp” by Israel, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced in a statement.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, four men, aged 20 to 25, were killed by an Israeli drone strike on the same camp. On Monday, a child and a woman were killed in the northern occupied West Bank during an Israeli incursion into Nour Shams. The previous day, the Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad claimed that a fighter from its armed wing had been killed in drone strikes in the camp. The Health Ministry reported five people injured, two seriously, in the attack.
14 people killed in two days
The Israeli army had said its forces had struck “wanted terrorists” in the vicinity of Tulkarem. In April, 14 people were killed in two days by Israeli gunfire in Nour Shams, according to the Red Crescent. Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, violence has intensified in the West Bank.
According to Palestinian authorities, at least 556 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army or settlers since October 7 in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. At least 15 Israelis have been killed in attacks, including soldiers, in the same territory and during the same period, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.