The Israeli bombings targeted members of the Tulkarem Brigade, based in the region. This is the largest wave of violence and clashes since the Second Intifada.
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The Israeli Army launched an operation on Monday in the Tulkarem area, northwest of the West Bank, after bombing the Nur Shams refugee camp on Sunday and killing an Islamic Jihad leader.
“Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Tulkarem at dawn today,” the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
In the city, which is a refuge for dozens of members of the Tulkarem Brigade linked to the armed groups Fatah and Islamic Jihad, clashes broke out on Monday between members of the militia and Israeli soldiers.
An Israeli attack took place in the same area on Sunday, killing one person and injuring five, two of whom were seriously injured.
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Military vehicles and bulldozers were later seen crossing the central roads of Al Alami, Al Sikka and Nablus towards the Nur Shams refugee camp, according to Wafa news agency.
“Ours The fighters detonated several high-powered devices. and that it had been prepared in advance and that it hit several enemy (Israeli) vehicles and soldiers,” the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, said in a statement.
Regarding the events, the Israeli Army radio station indicated that an armored vehicle “passed over a bomb” but did not provide further details or refer to possible victims.
The clashes followed an Israeli attack on Sunday on a house in Nur Shams, in which Saed Izzat Jaber, 24, “one of the founders and most prominent leaders” of the Tulkarem Brigade, was killed, Islamic Jihad said.
A drone was used in the attack against the home of the local leader of Islamic Jihad.
The West Bank region is being affected by The biggest wave of violence since the Second Intifada. (2000-2005).
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Since January, at least 233 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed in Israeli operations, most of them members of the militias but also civilians, including 44 minors, according to a count by the EFE agency.
In 2023, 520 people were killed following clashes in the West Bank.
On the Israeli side, since the beginning of the year, 15 people have been killed: 12 Israelis in nine Palestinian attacks, including nine soldiers and six civilians.
Source: Observadora
