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RAMALLAH: Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed six people in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, while the Israeli military confirmed it killed four militants in an air strike.
The health ministry in Ramallah said four Palestinians were killed and three were wounded “as a result of the (Israeli) bombing of a vehicle in Tulkarem camp,” in the northern West Bank.
The military said Tarek Doush, a militant from the “Tulkarem terrorist network,” was among those killed.
“Over the past year, Tarek recruited numerous terrorists, armed and funded by Iran and by Lebanese terror operatives ... to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israelis,” the military said.
“The terrorist network led by Tarek carried out multiple shooting attacks against IDF soldiers, as well as shooting attacks against checkpoints and communities near the Judea and Samaria security fence in the area of Tulkarem,” it said, referring to the biblical names for the West Bank.
The strike killed Doush and three other militants, the military added.
Earlier on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said two Palestinians were killed in a raid in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
One of the dead was 80-year-old Halima Abu Leil, who had been shot in the chest and leg, it said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed her death after transporting her to the hospital.
The ministry also announced the death of a 25-year-old man in the same raid. His passing was confirmed by the Red Crescent.
The Red Crescent accused Israeli forces of firing at its ambulances, “obstructing the delivery of humanitarian and medical services inside the camp.”
Violence in the West Bank has intensified since the war in Gaza began on October 7 last year, following Hamas’s attack on Israel.
Since the start of the Gaza war, at least 803 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
In the same period, Palestinian attacks have claimed the lives of at least 24 Israelis in the West Bank, based on Israeli official data.
Israel has maintained an occupation of the West Bank since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.