The Israeli attack on a vehicle near Qabatiya occurs while the ongoing attack on Jénine, nearby, led to the movement of thousands of people.
An attack by Israeli drone against a vehicle near the city of Qabatiya in an occupied West Bank killed two people, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health on the fourth day of a day. large -scale Israeli operation In and around the neighboring town of Jenine.
The Israeli army said that Friday’s air attack in the Jenin governorate had touched a vehicle in which it was called “terrorist cell”, without giving more details.
Palestinian official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that it was a drone attack that occurred just before Israeli forces storm Qabatiya and start “sweeping operations”.
The air attack coincided with the current military operation against the Palestinian fighters in Jenine and in the adjacent refugee camp, which has already led to the death of 14 Palestinians and injured about fifty others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of the Palestinian Ministry Health in Ramallah.
The Israeli army has also announced the arrest of 20 people which it considers “sought -after suspects” and said it had seized weapons.
In addition to the losses of life, the operation in the north of the West Bank – launched only two days after the truce concluded between Israel and Hamas in Gaza – caused significant destruction.
Israeli shielded bulldozers and excavators have demolished houses and dug roads in the Jénine region and forced displacement of around 2,000 families.
A United Nations spokesman warned on Friday against the “deterioration” of the situation in the West Bank and called on Israel to protect the Palestinians.
During a press briefing, Farhan Haq said that the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA) “warns once again that deadly and warlike tactics are applied, raising worries about recourse to The force that goes beyond the standards of application of the law ”.
Earlier, Thameen al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed serious concerns concerning the use of disproportionate and illegal force in Jenin, warning against the risk of violations generalized human rights.
Al-Kheetan underlined the responsibility of the international community to ask Israel accounts for these actions.
