Israeli drone strike kills child, injures two in West Bank’s Jenin

The drone targeted civilians adjacent the Saadi household council, resulting successful the decease of a 14-year-old child.

A kid has been killed and 2 different radical wounded successful an Israeli drone onslaught connected eastbound Jenin arsenic the Israeli army’s deadly raids continued crossed the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Wafa quality bureau reported that the drone targeted civilians adjacent the Saadi household assembly which resulted successful the sidesplitting of the 14-year-old.

The deadly Israeli raids, which it calls the “Iron Wall” campaign, were launched conscionable days aft a ceasefire was agreed successful Gaza. Since then, astatine slightest 20 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli forces crossed the occupied territory successful summation to dozens wounded.

In summation to the deadly onslaught connected Jenin, the Israeli service besides carried retired intensive subject operations successful Tulkarem metropolis and its exile campy for a sixth consecutive day, forcing Palestinians to permission their homes.

Israeli forces besides stormed respective different areas of the occupied West Bank connected Saturday, including the adjacent Balata camp, Nablus and al-Ain exile camp.

The Israeli service carried retired a bid of raids overnight, including shooting astatine civilians successful a car connected Halhul-Hebron Bridge northbound of Hebron and arresting those inside, and mounting a location ablaze adjacent a mosque southbound of Hebron.

In a abstracted overnight raid, the Israeli subject besides fired state grenades astatine houses successful Hebron’s westbound arsenic the subject searched the location of freed captive Shehadeh al-Jiyawi, Wafa reported.

Besides raids, the Israeli subject besides carried retired arrests according to the Palestinian Information Center.

One Palestinian antheral was arrested aft Israeli forces stormed into his location successful the occupied West Bank metropolis of Qalqilya. A 2nd man, a pupil astatine Birzeit University, was arrested aft Israeli forces stormed into his location successful the Deir Ammar exile camp, westbound of Ramallah.

Since October 2023, astatine slightest 880 Palestinians person been killed successful attacks by the Israeli service and settlers crossed the occupied West Bank.

On Thursday, Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa described what is happening successful the occupied West Bank arsenic “a systematic effort to destruct the foundations of the Palestinian state”.

“We are witnessing subject incursions into bluish West Bank governorates, accompanied by killing, detention, infrastructure destruction, and demolition of homes and structures. This demands urgent planetary enactment to enactment this to an end.”

Earlier this month, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum restraint” from Israeli forces. He told a UN Security Council gathering astir his fears of “an existential menace to the integrity and contiguity” of Gaza and the occupied West Bank from Israel.

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