Israel killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern Occupied West Bank on Tuesday 6 August. This brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel since 7 October in the Occupied Territories to at least 617. As the Canary was going to print, reports filtered in of Israel killing a 15-year-old girl in a drone strike.
Israel: killing in the West Bank
Israel killed five people in the Jenin area and four in Aqaba town in Tubas district when Israeli forces carried out early-morning raids, the health ministry in Ramallah said.
The Israeli army said they killed three people and arrested two in another raid in the village of Kafr Qud, west of Jenin:
lsraeli occupation forces kill three #Palestinians in a village west of #Jenin city and kidnap their dead bodies. pic.twitter.com/e5QIRkX8vy
— War Analysis (@iiamguri9) August 6, 2024
The army added that its aircraft struck “armed terrorist cells” in the Jenin area, but did not give details on casualties. As the Canary was going to print, reports were filtering in of an Israeli drone strike on Jenin:
An Israeli drone attack in Jenin, West Bank. Multiple casualties. A 15 year old girl is dead
The Israeli army are right now blocking ambulances getting to victims
Hamas are not in the West Bank
Its never been defence
It’s always been a racist genocide. pic.twitter.com/jKCsvpAr5B— Furkan Gözükara (@GozukaraFurkan) August 6, 2024
The Palestinian Red Crescent had earlier reported deaths and injuries “due to the occupation’s shelling of two vehicles in the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin”.
Aqaba residents said Israeli troops arrived at dawn and surrounded the house of Amid Ghanam, leading to clashes between troops and young Palestinians.
A “systematic crime”
Ghanam and two others were killed in the clashes, while another teenager was killed near a hospital, Tubas governor Ahmed Assad told Agence France-Presse (AFP):
The army entered and surrounded the house as snipers took positions on nearby rooftops and shot anyone who moved.
The teenager was shot when the troops “entered the area of the hospital”, Assad said.
Aqaba mayor Abdel Razzaq Abu Arra said the teenager “was killed in cold blood”:
This Zionist crime is a systematic crime that the Israelis carry out on a daily basis.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Since 7 October, at least 617 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops or settlers in the West Bank since October 7, according to an AFP tally based on Palestinian official figures.
At least 17 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed by Palestinian attacks in the West Bank over the same period, according to Israeli official figures.
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Additional reporting via Agence France-Presse
