Israeli drone strike kills two Palestinian terrorists

The Israeli military carried out an operation in the Nur Shams Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Photo: Nasser Nasser/AP

Two Palestinians who the Israeli military said posed a «threat» to its soldiers were killed in an airstrike in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority said early Thursday.

< p>Shortly after midnight, the Israeli military reported that it was conducting an operation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nur Shams, adjacent to the city of Tulkarm in the northwestern West Bank.

“During the operation, the plane shot down two terrorists who pose an immediate threat for forces,” the Israeli army said in a brief message.

The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry also said that two people were killed by Israeli fire in the Nur Shams camp and that their bodies were transferred to a hospital in Tulkarm.

On Wednesday, three Palestinians, including members of Islamic Jihad, commander, were killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups in the northern West Bank.

Violence in the West Bank intensifies

Several hundred people, including youths firing machine guns into the air, attended the funeral of three men in a refugee camp near Jenin on Wednesday evening, AFP journalists said.

Violence in the country has intensified. The West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, sparked by the unprecedented Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7.

According to the Palestinian Authority, at least 430 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in West Bank since the start of the war, and thousands more have been arrested.