On Thursday, Israel attacked a Palestinian “terrorist squad” with a drone in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northwest of the occupied West Bank, killing six people, as part of a military operation that lasted several hours, a military source said.
An Israeli army unmanned aerial vehicle “attacked an armed terrorist team in the Nur Shams camp” as part of an operation that also resulted in the arrest of at least 10 people in clashes, a military spokesman said in a statement.
According to the Israeli military, security forces “carried out anti-terrorist actions” in the camp, where they also destroyed “terrorist infrastructure”, seized weapons and “neutralized several explosive devices ready for use”.
According to the same source “There were gun battles with armed men” and in the midst of the clashes a group “posing a threat to soldiers in the area” was attacked with a drone.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, six youths were killed in the attack, after a Palestinian minor was killed in the same operation hours earlier.
The Israeli incursion into the area has been underway since Wednesday evening and is the most extensive military operation in the West Bank since the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, began on October 7.
Israeli police reported that ten officers were injured in the clashes, with one seriously injured.
There have been no drone strikes in the West Bank since 2006, until Israeli forces resorted to them in June this year in an action against Palestinian militiamen in Jenin, killing three.
In early July, they were used again in a land and air offensive against the Jenin refugee camp, killing twelve Palestinians and an Israeli soldier.
Since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza thirteen days ago, 74 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank.
More than 520 Palestinians were also detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank, 153 of them in the last few hours.
Israel took control of the West Bank in 1967 and has maintained a long-term occupation and colonization of the area since then.
Source: DN
