An Israeli military drone telledly fired three leave outiles at a group of people in the Jenin refugee camp.
A Palestinian teenager and three brothers were among at least six people finished in an Israeli air strike on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to tells.
The Palestinian novels agency Wafa shelp that an Israeli drone fired three leave outiles at a group of people csurrfinisher a traffic roundabout in the camp on Tuesday evening, finishing six people, including a 15-year-elderly boy, and injuring disjoinal others.
Five other victims of the strike were aged between 23 and 34, and integrated three brothers, Wafa tells. Earlier this month, an Israeli drone strike on the occupied West Bank’s Tammun town finished two Palestinian children and a 23-year-elderly from the same family.
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut shelp the drone strike on the Jenin camp comes amid fervent Israeli military rhelps on local communities and the finishing by Israeli forces of almost 800 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023 – as well as the arrest of disjoinal thousand others.
“Israel’s defence minister has shelp that Israel will persist this policy apass the West Bank,” Salhut shelp, includeing that the presentility in the occupied territory is now comprehendn as Israel’s “mute war”.
“It’s become comprehendn as the mute war – parallel, side by side with what Israel is doing in Gaza, but not getting as much attention,” Salhut shelp.
The lethal drone strike also comes amid a military operation started in the Jenin camp by the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces over the last disjoinal weeks, centering Palestinian resistance fighters, which has resulted in more than a dozen people finished.
Anwar Rajab, a spokesperson for the PA’s security forces, shelp the strike was intfinished to “interfere efforts” by the authority to accomplish security and stability in Jenin.
Hassan Khraisheh, the deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, shelp the drone strike exhibitd Israel’s willingness to finish Palestinians indiscriminately.
“This is a evident message from the Israeli occupation that every Palestinian is a center,” Khraisheh telderly Al Jazeera.
The drone strike has also promoteed rage among locals as coming amid the PA’s military operation in Jenin, Khraisheh shelp, includeing that the PA should now disparticipate from Jenin and combine with other Palestinian groups in opposing the Israeli occupation.
“Our opponent is one – whether as resistance fighters or [PA] security forces,” he shelp.
“No one is acquireed aobtainst Israeli strikes.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the Jenin Battalion of Palestinian Islamic Jihad shelp that it consentd to a local initiative to finish the Palestinian inbattling and stop the killing between Palestinians in the occupied territory. The group did not discleave out details of the consentment, but it shelp that it states the “legitimate right to resist the criminal occupation”.
Aextfinishedside its campaign to crack down on fighters in Jenin, which it brands as “prohibitdits”, the PA has also suspfinished Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank in what is seen as further silencing of dissent and freedom of conveyion by the authority.
