Three teens among 4 killed during Israeli military raid in West Bank: Report
The death toll from the Israeli military raid on the town of Aqqaba in the occupied West Bank’s Tubas area has risen to four – including two 19-year-olds and a 14-year-old, the Wafa news agency reports.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health told Wafa that the two 19-year-olds from Aqqaba died early on Tuesday of their wounds after being shot by Israeli forces.
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was also shot and killed during the raid and, on Monday evening, a 37-year-old man died from critical head wounds from the Israeli gunfire.
According to reports, the Israeli military stormed the town, surrounded a house and fired live bullets at young Palestinians who tried to resist the incursion into their community. The Palestine Red Crescent Society had reported that seven Palestinians were shot and seriously injured during the Israeli raid.
Israeli military raid on Jenin continues, arrests carried out across West Bank
Israeli forces continued their military raid on Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp in the early hours of this morning, destroying civilian infrastructure as reconnaissance aircraft overflew the occupied West Bank city.
The Wafa news agency reports that the raid, which began on Monday, involves Israeli military bulldozers causing “severe material damage” to public infrastructure and private property in the city and refugee camp. Power outages have been reported as a result of damage to electrical transformers, the news agency reports.
Raids and arrests have been reported elsewhere in the occupied territory, including:
- Two young Palestinians arrested in the Jalazone refugee camp, located to the north of Ramallah.
- Three Palestinians, including a teenager, arrested in raids in the Bethlehem area during which clashes broke out with local people resisting the Israeli military incursion in the village of Artas.
- A wounded Palestinian man was arrested in the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, after Israeli forces stormed his family home.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic verified footage of damage to Palestinian vehicles during the Israeli raid on Jenin on Monday.
جرافات الاحتلال تدمر البنية التحتية والطرقات في مخيم جنين #حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/dlrOP4v7oN
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) August 6, 2024
Translation: [Israeli] bulldozers destroy infrastructure and roads in Jenin camp.
Israeli drone attack kills 1 in Jenin
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that one person was killed in the eastern area of the city in the occupied West Bank, after being bombed from the air by an Israeli army drone.
Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters went on all night in the city as a raid by the army unfolded.
In latest Jenin raid, 18-year-old killed by Israeli drone attack
Now the death toll [from Israeli raids in the West Bank] has increased to five because an 18-year-old Palestinian has been killed here in Jenin. We heard two loud bangs as we were making our way to this city, which had been undergoing a raid since the afternoon of yesterday.
We have seen more and more Israeli military vehicles going towards the Jenin refugee camp, where armed confrontations have taken place between the Palestinian fighters there and the Israeli forces that kept coming in. And now we’ve heard the drone strikes, two of them, killing one Palestinian. Medical sources say they have nine injuries just here in Jenin, two of them are in critical condition.
Death toll from West Bank raids rises to 7
The death toll from continuing Israeli raids in the West Bank has risen to seven, Palestinian officials have confirmed. Al Jazeera correspondents have reported that three people, including an 18-year-old, were killed in Jenin this morning and four others in Tubas.
This brings the death toll in the occupied West Bank since October 7 to 612, including 145 children and 11 women.
