Palestinian women stand near the damaged site of a drone strike at the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 27, 2024. | Photo credit: Reuters
Five Palestinians were killed in a suicide attack.israeli attack The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that the Noor Shams refugee camp in the West Bank would be attacked on Monday (August 26, 2024).
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said four loud explosions were heard after an Israeli drone targeted a house in the camp in the West Bank town of Tulkarum. Israel did not immediately comment.
Clashes in the occupied West Bank have escalated sharply since the start of the Gaza war last year, as the Israeli military steps up its campaign against armed militant groups including Hamas and the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad.
Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested and at least 637 have been killed, many of them armed fighters, while others were stone-throwing youths or unaffiliated civilians.