The attack comes a few days after the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday in Tehran and of Hezbollah’s top commander Fuad Shukr the day before in Beirut.
And Israeli drone attack on car in West Bank occupied has killed a Hamas military commander, according to local media. Others Four Palestinians were also killed in the attack., which took place on a road linking the Palestinian villages of Zeita and Qaffin, near the city of Tulkarem. According to the Israeli army, the occupants of the vehicle were on their way to carry out an attack.
The official Palestinian Wafa news agency said the bodies of the five palestinians were taken to a nearby hospital, and that four of the bodies were “burned and charred beyond recognition.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry has not commented on the deaths. More than 590 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the war broke out in between Israel and Hamas in Gaza last October, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, which tracks deaths.
Most have died during Israeli raids and violent protests, but among the dead There are also pedestrians and dead Palestinians in attacks by Jewish settlers. The northern West Bank has seen some of the worst violence in the last 10 months.
Tulkarem, and its two refugee camps, has become one of the main hotspots of tension in the territory, and is regularly raided by Israeli forces. Palestinian militant groups, such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, operate in the city.
Tensions have been increasing in the region after the death, day after day, of Hamas leader and of a Hezbollah commander. Iran and its allies, including Hezbollah, have vowed to retaliate and Major airlines, including Iberia, have canceled flights to Tel Aviv (Israel) and Beirut (Lebanon).
The Pentagon has announced that the US military will transfer a squadron of fighters to the Middle East and will maintain an aircraft carrier in the region.
President Joe Biden has said that he has urged the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take advantage of the chance for a ceasefire with Hamasadding that Haniyeh’s assassination in Iran had “not helped” efforts to negotiate an end to the war.
