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Six dead in Israeli air strike on West Bank city of Jenin – Palestinian officials

Six people were killed early on Sunday during an Israeli airstrike in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

“An Israeli occupation bombardment on a group of citizens killed six people in Jenin,” said the Palestinian Authority-run Ministry of Health, which is based in the West Bank.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported early Sunday that a major deployment of Israeli forces was under way in Jenin.

Violence has intensified in the West Bank since Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from Gaza on 7 October. More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the conflict broke out, according to the United Nations Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Palestinian gunmen attend the funeral of six Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday. Photograph: Majdi Mohammed/AP

More detail has come in on this morning’s airstrike in the occupied West Bank. The strike killed six Palestinians in Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said, while Israel said that one of its soldiers had been killed.

Here’s some more from Reuters, who spoke to people on the ground this morning:

Israel said its aircraft fired on Palestinian militants who had attacked troops in the city of Jenin, while the Palestinian ministry said the strike targeted people who had gathered at the site, and eyewitnesses said the attack happened as Israeli forces were withdrawing.
“One of the martyrs was decapitated,” Mujahid Nazzal, a Palestinian doctor and first responder at the scene, told Reuters. “It seemed the missile directly hit him. Others had their limbs severed. A seventh person was seriously injured and taken by the ambulance.”
Another witness, Ahmed Suleiman, said, “The air strike happened at the entrance of Jenin in an area called Martyr’s Triangle. You can see the effects of the missile. Blood and body parts scattered everywhere.”
Four of those killed were brothers, according to family members.
An Israeli border police officer was killed and others wounded when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device during operations in Jenin, the Israeli military and police said.
A helicopter helped rescue them with covering fire, the military said, adding that an aircraft fired at a “terrorist squad that hurled explosives and endangered our forces, a number of terrorists were killed.”

Six dead in Israeli air strike on West Bank city of Jenin – Palestinian officials

Six people were killed early on Sunday during an Israeli airstrike in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

“An Israeli occupation bombardment on a group of citizens killed six people in Jenin,” said the Palestinian Authority-run Ministry of Health, which is based in the West Bank.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported early Sunday that a major deployment of Israeli forces was under way in Jenin.

Violence has intensified in the West Bank since Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from Gaza on 7 October. More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the conflict broke out, according to the United Nations Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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