Mother and two children among 18 killed in Israeli fighter jet strike on Tulkarem
This is the first time the Israeli army used fighter jets against a building or a target for assassination in the occupied West Bank in over 20 years.
A use of extreme force that is, quite frankly, unnecessary. It could have been done with drones or helicopters, as we’ve seen repeatedly over the past year. And yet, we saw this massive strike that has left at least 18 people killed, including a mother, her two children and her brother.
An entire building was levelled to the ground and the hospitals in this refugee camp of 23,000 were overwhelmed with the influx of casualties.
It was a very traumatic night for the residents of the Tulkarem refugee camp.
Body parts ‘all over the place’ after Israeli fighter jets hit Tulkarem refugee camp
Palestinians examine the damage following an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem
Red Crescent medic Daliya Hadaydeh said the aftermath of the air attack on a coffee shop in the Palestinian camp was “horrific”.
“We heard a huge explosion in the camp. We headed towards the area. We saw the whole building destroyed and engulfed in flames,” Hadaydeh told Al Jazeera following the missile strike on the camp located in the northwest of the occupied West Bank.
“Body parts were scattered all over the place. It was a horrific scene. Five of the bodies were almost intact. But between 15 and 20 were dismembered,” she said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that at least 18 people were killed in the attack on Thursday night, many were injured, and the search was continuing for people buried beneath the rubble.
The remains of some of the 18 victims of an Israeli air attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp are brought to the Sabit State Hospital morgue in the occupied West Bank on Thursday night
