At least two Palestinian people have been killed and three others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin as the illegal entity ramps up violence across the Palestinian territories to make up for setbacks after the recent military operation by the Gaza-based resistance groups.
Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said the casualties occurred after the Israeli airstrike targeted the al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the early hours of Sunday.
The news agency cited the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) in Jenin as saying that one of the two victims was identified as Mohammad Hussein Abdel-Hafiz. The other victim is yet to be identified due to the fact that his body was mutilated as a result of the Israeli attack.
The PRC said three Palestinians were injured in the raid, with one of them sustaining shrapnel wounds.
Israeli media claimed that the two killed in the airstrike were members of the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and that al-Ansar mosque was used as a “command center to plan attacks” against the occupying regime.
Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was killed during a military raid of Nablus and another was shot dead in the south of Tubas as stated in a series of statements by the health ministry.
The two victims were identified as Adnan Bani Odeh, 19 years old, and Malik Sharqawi, 26, according to local reports.
On Thursday, Israel’s military raided and carried out an air strike in a refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, claiming the lives of at least 12 Palestinians.
The Israeli regime has ramped up violence in the West Bank since Hamas-led resistance groups carried out a surprise attack, called Operation al-Aqsa Storm, by firing thousands of rockets at the occupied territories on October 7.
The attack, which was a legitimate response to recurrent acts of violence against Palestinians, touched off an incessant onslaught by the illegal entity on the besieged Gaza Strip, having left more than 4,300 people so far, mostly civilians, dead and some 14,000 others injured.
Since then, at least 90 Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
