The balance sheet quickly increased.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, eight Palestinians were killed and a dozen were injured on Thursday during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
“The situation in the camp (…) is critical,” Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said in a statement, saying Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters into the pediatric ward of a hospital there. .
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Among the victims, the authorities count "an elderly woman".
Among the 16 injured, four people are said to be in serious condition.
The Minister of Health said that, according to the Red Cross, their evacuation was difficult.
She also asked for the organization of an “urgent meeting” with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization (WHO) – which have not yet reacted.
The operation in the camp confirmed by Israel
“The Israeli army destroys everything and shoots everything that moves,” Jenin deputy governor Kamal Abu al-Roub told AFP, adding that residents “lived in a state of war”.
“What is happening in Jenin and its camp is a massacre perpetrated by the Israeli occupation government,” said Nabil Abu Roudeina, spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
On Telegram, the Israeli army confirmed that “security forces” were conducting “an operation in the Jenin refugee camp.
Details will be provided later, ”she said, without giving, for the time being, a human toll.
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Nighttime footage of an Israeli raid that killed six Palestinians in the West Bank
The Israeli army, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967, carries out almost daily raids across this Palestinian territory, particularly in the north, in the areas of Jenin and Nablus, strongholds of armed Palestinian factions.
Thursday's deaths bring to 28 the number of Palestinians, civilians or members of armed groups, killed since the beginning of the year in violence with Israeli forces or civilians.
On Wednesday, two young Palestinians, including a teenager, were shot dead by agents of the Israeli security forces, according to the Palestinian Authority.
One was killed after trying to stab a soldier and the other during clashes with police, according to Israel.
According to an AFP count, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has killed more than 200 Palestinians and claimed the lives of at least 26 Israelis in 2022.