The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that three Palestinians had been slain at the Jenin Camp in the occupied West Bank.
According to the IDF, they stopped a “terrorist cell” at the camp. Three members of the group were reportedly killed during the operation, according to the IDF.
In a statement outlining the incident, the IDF claimed that Naif Abu Tsuik, the cell’s leader, and two other members had been slain. Additionally, an M-16 rifle was discovered in the cell’s car.
A statement regarding the deaths has not yet been released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. According to eyewitness accounts, Israeli soldiers took the truck with the dead inside.
The incident was denounced by the Hamas spokesman, Hazem Qassem, as a “new crime” committed by the “Zionist enemy.”
He declared that the Palestinian people would keep up their struggle and that the occupation will face the repercussions of its acts.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said this past weekend that an Israeli settler had shot and murdered a Palestinian man in the West Bank neighbourhood of Burqa, close to Ramallah.
Two Israelis were detained after the event, which was condemned by the US. Israeli settlers rarely face arrest after attacking Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli authorities reported that a Palestinian gunman who was also shot and killed on Saturday night shot and murdered an Israeli patrolman in Tel Aviv.
Long a hotbed of conflict, Jenin witnessed Israeli forces’ largest-scale military offensive in decades last month.
At least 12 Palestinians died as a result of the rioting, which also severely damaged the city’s camp for refugees.