Wed 21 June 2023:
In a new escalation of attacks on the occupied Palestinian area, an Israeli drone strike hit a car in the northern West Bank.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, three individuals were killed in the strike late Wednesday. According to a video posted on social media, the air raid occurred in the Jenin refugee camp and set the car on fire.
lsraeli drone strike kills three Palestinians in the West Bank in an assassination that is the first of its kind since 2005. pic.twitter.com/fa1CkbVGHt
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) June 21, 2023
lsraeli warplane bombs a civilian vehicle northeast of Jenin. pic.twitter.com/OGALQo21TM
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) June 21, 2023
Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, said the drone strike was the culmination of a joint military-intelligence operation. “We don’t know who was inside the vehicle or how many. Details are very sketchy at this stage,” he said.
In a statement, Israel’s military said it “identified a terrorist cell inside a suspicious vehicle after the cell carried out a shooting adjacent to the town of Jalamah”.
Jalamah, at the northern end of the occupied West Bank, is just a few kilometres from Jenin where an Israeli raid killed seven Palestinians on Monday.
It claimed the targets had been responsible for a number of shooting attacks on Jewish settlements. The identities of the occupants in the car were not immediately known.
A joint statement by the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said that intelligence from the domestic security agency had located the terror cell in real-time as it was perpetrating a shooting attack near Jalma in the Menashe region.
“Following the identification of the terrorist cell, an [Israel Defense Forces] UAV fired toward the cell and thwarted them,” it said.
The late-night strike marked an escalation in Israel’s ongoing campaign against Palestinians in the area.
Earlier on Wednesday, hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, setting fire to dozens of cars and homes to avenge the deaths of four Israelis killed by Palestinian gunmen the previous day. Palestinians said one man was killed in the violence.
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