Palestine said on Monday that Israeli forces killed three Palestinians during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in what the Israeli military described as an “anti-terrorist operation”.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has said in a statement that the three people who were martyred in Balta camp in Nablus have been identified as 32-year-old Muhammad Abu Zaytoun, 30-year-old Fathi Abu Rizq and 24-year-old Abdullah Abu Hamdan.
The media wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party said in a statement that the three men were among the group’s members.
During their burial, the bodies of the martyred Palestinians were shrouded in the Palestinian flag.
According to the Israeli military, he shot dead several militants when a gun battle broke out during a counter-terrorist operation.
It said that during the operation, “armed suspects opened fire on the soldiers, who returned fire directly.
It arrested three “wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities”, he said, adding that arms and ammunition were seized.
A spokesman for Palestinian President Nabil Abu Rudina called the killings a “genuine massacre” and alleged that repeated Israeli raids and settler attacks were a “massive war crime and collective punishment”.
“US silence has encouraged the Israelis to escalate attacks,” he said, calling on Washington to “immediately intervene to stop the Israeli madness that will lead the region to an explosion.” “.
The West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Six-Day War, in which its forces inflicted repeated atrocities on the Palestinian population, which is nominally under the control of Abbas’s Palestinian Authority.
Israeli military operations across Palestine have escalated in recent months as brutal attacks have claimed countless Palestinian lives.
According to AFP According to the report, the Israeli occupation forces raided several houses in the camp and searched for the people they wanted.
An eyewitness was quoted as saying: “Firing and loud explosions rocked the camp and a house collapsed.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s military noted that it had “located an explosive device in the residences” and detonated it.
After the Israeli attack, the Palestinian people searched the ruins of the destroyed building and saved their belongings.
The Hamas group occupying the Gaza Strip has declared the martyred Palestinians as freedom fighters.
“Hamas reiterates that it is resisting. [Israeli] Hamas said in a statement that the occupation is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom.
According to the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Bilatta is home to about 27,000 people, making it the largest camp in the West Bank.
Last night’s attack came a week after a tenuous Gaza ceasefire was reached after five days of fighting between Israel and Palestine.
Since the beginning of the year, 153 Palestinians have been martyred by the Israeli occupation forces. AFP Reported