The Palestinian well being ministry on Tuesday mentioned two males had been killed in an Israeli air strike on what the army described as a “terrorist cell” close to the occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Tubas.
“An Israeli airstrike on a automobile close to the city of Aqaba” close to Tubas within the northern West Financial institution killed two Palestinians and wounded one, the well being ministry mentioned.
All three Palestinians had been transported to a hospital in Tubas, it added, however later mentioned Israeli forces raided the identical hospital, which the military denied in an announcement to AFP.
The Israeli army informed AFP that the air drive, “appearing on intelligence, struck a terror cell that was about to hold out an assault” within the Aqaba space, with out specifying the variety of casualties.
It mentioned a military unit “was then dispatched to gather the our bodies and operated within the space of the Turkish Hospital in Tubas”.
Nonetheless, it added, “they didn’t enter the hospital.”
Israel typically seizes the our bodies of Palestinians killed throughout operations, notably those that belonged to militant teams, though an AFP journalist current close to the hospital on the time of the operation didn’t see troopers carrying our bodies.
The Palestinian well being ministry mentioned the Israeli military besieged the hospital, earlier than breaking into it, capturing inside, “assaulting workers and sufferers, and arresting quite a lot of them”.
The AFP journalist in Tubas noticed Israeli armoured automobiles stationed exterior the hospital and troopers deployed round it.
The journalist noticed Israeli troopers exiting the hospital and detaining workers, a few of them sporting scrubs or physician’s robes, earlier than loading them into the armoured automobiles.
Violence within the West Financial institution has soared for the reason that warfare in Gaza erupted on October 7 final 12 months after Hamas’s assault on Israel.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed no less than 786 Palestinians within the West Financial institution for the reason that begin of the Gaza warfare, in line with the Ramallah-based well being ministry.
Palestinian assaults on Israelis have additionally killed no less than 24 folks within the West Financial institution in the identical interval, in line with Israeli official figures.
Israel has occupied the West Financial institution since 1967.
