RAMALLAH: An Israeli operation in a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank left six people dead and several others wounded early Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
“Six martyrs killed by the occupation (Israel) and some who were seriously wounded were transported to the Thabet Thabet government hospital in Tulkarem,” the ministry said in a short statement.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the six people were killed by Israeli air strikes on the Nur Shams refugee camp near the town of Tulkarem, where Israeli soldiers were also deployed.
The army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the operation. More than 300 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers since the Gaza war erupted, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry.
Separately, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation strongly condemned the continued Israeli military aggression, genocide, forcible displacement, and destruction perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, which on Wednesday claimed more lives in the West Bank.
This is in addition to hundreds who have been injured, mostly women and children, in all parts of the Gaza Strip, and the continued targeting of facilities and workers in the health, humanitarian, and media sectors and United Nations staff, in flagrant violation of the recent resolutions adopted
by the Security Council and the General Assembly.
The OIC also condemned the Israeli occupation for continuing to deprive the Palestinian civilian population of food, medicine, water, medical care, protection, and other basic services.
It renewed its demand to the international community to assume its responsibility towards forcing a stop to the Israeli military aggression, ensuring delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in a sufficient and sustainable manner, counter attempts at forcible expulsion of Palestinian civilians, and providing protection for the Palestinian people, in implementation of relevant UN resolutions.
