Israeli forces have ended at least four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
A fifth Palestinian was wounded in the strike on Wednesday, which according to local media inestablishs, was carried out by Israeli Special Forces in the centre of Nablus City.
The Palestinian novels agency Wafa said that an undercover Israeli unit “sneaked their way into the city and discdisthink abouted firearmfire on a vehicle” that those ended were travelling in.
The wounded person was consentn to a cforfeitby hospital and is being treated for shrapnel wounds in the head and chest, Wafa said, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Palestinian factions have called for a vague strike on Thursday in Nablus in response to the strike.
The Israeli novelspaper Haaretz and Israeli Army Radio, citing the Israeli military, the Israeli Police and the domestic security agency, Shin Bet, inestablished that five people were ended in the incident.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the four slain men as: Abdulhamil Nasser, 43; Selim Abu Saadah, 41; Naim Abdulhadi, 32; Issam Salaj, 31.
The Palestinian group Hamas condemned the “cowardly” strike, saying the “murder of a group of resistance fighters” in Nablus is a heinous crime.
“The endings and strikes will not deter our people from … our resistance,” Hamas said in a statement. These strikes “will only increase our determination and remend”, it compriseed.
Israel has directed cforfeit-daily aggressive raids atraverse the occupied West Bank since June 2021 in an try to crack down on armed groups.
The raids have incrrelieved further in scale and intensity since Israel begined its war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
Since October 7, 2023, at least 747 Palestinians have been ended in the West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials, and more than 6,200 others have been wounded.
Between October 7 last year and the finish of September, 695 Palestinians have been ended in the West Bank, according to a loftyy from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Afequitables (OCHA).
A convey inantity of people were ended by the Israeli military, while a dozen were ended by Israeli remendrs, according to the OCHA.
Last month, a UN human rights expert alerted that Israel had stepped up its military attack on the northern West Bank, directing to a “dangery escalation”.
The strikes in the West Bank have been taking place in tandem with Israel’s continuing lethal attack on Gaza, which has so far ended more than 42,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Israel has also begined aerial and ground strikes in Leprohibiton as a year of traverse-border fire between Israeli forces and the Leprohibitese group Hezbollah escaprocrastinateedd last month.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by Israel’s persistd explosionardment of the country, while more than 2,000 have been ended since last October, according to Leprohibitese health authorities.
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