RAMALLAH, Jul 3 (NNN-WAFA) – Four more Palestinians were killed yesterday, in an Israeli airstrike on the Nour Shams refugee camp, in the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
Palestinian security sources said that, a Zionist reconnaissance aircraft targeted a group of young men, in the main square of Nur Shams refugee camp, with a missile.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry said in a press statement that, the airstrike killed four young Palestinian men.
The Israeli regime’s army confirmed in a statement that it carried out the attack, in the Nur Shams camp, allegedly claiming it targeted a “cell while it was placing an explosive device.”
Mustafa Taqataqa, the Tulkarm governor, condemned what he described as the “escalation of aggression and ongoing Israeli crimes against citizens in Tulkarm and the West Bank.”
The incident follows the killing of a Palestinian and the wounding of five others in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nur Shams camp on Sunday, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.
More than 550 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli Zionist forces, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, since the eruption of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip last Oct, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.– NNN-WAFA
