An Israeli fighter jet attack has killed at least 18 people in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday evening. The attack marked the first time Israel has used a fighter jet to carry out a strike in the West Bank since the 2000s, reported AFP. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the airstrike, calling it a “heinous crime” against civilians. The Palestinian Authority-run news agency Wafa reported that the strike had targeted a packed coffee shop in the camp filled with civilians. The Israeli military confirmed the strike, stating that it had been carried out by fighter jets in coordination with Israel’s internal security service and that the target of the strike was the head of Hamas’s infrastructure in the area. This latest attack is part of a broader surge in Israeli military raids across the West Bank, which have intensified since the start of the war on Gaza on 7 October 2023. According to a report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 695 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since 7…
Israel Kills 18 Palestinians in Fighter Jet Attack on West Bank Refugee Camp
October 4, 2024
