September 11,
2024
Five
Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the occupied West Bank city
of Tubas early on 11 September.
“Crews were able
to retrieve the bodies of five people from the bombing site … they were
transferred to the hospital, as occupation forces prevented ambulances from
reaching the targeted site,” the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS)
reported.
The attack came
as troops once again stormed the city of Tubas on Wednesday morning, as part of
a large-scale Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank which was launched on
28 August.
Tubas witnessed
“a large-scale storming of its outskirts and neighborhoods at dawn, as the
occupation forces declared a curfew on the city, and deployed in its northern
areas,” WAFA news agency reported on 11 September.
Israeli forces
also besieged Tubas’ Turkish Governmental Hospital, closing roads leading to
the medical facility and preventing ambulances from reaching it.
Troops stormed
several other areas including the town of Tamoun southeast of Tubas.
Palestinian
resistance fighters confronted the renewed attack on Tubas on 11 September. In
a statement, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades’ Tubas branch said its fighters
“detonated a number of highly explosive devices prepared in advance nearby the
Zionist enemy's vehicles storming the city of Tubas on several axes.”
Israeli troops
also continued their incursion into Tulkarem on 11 September after reinvading
the city on Tuesday, forcibly displacing residents of its refugee camps,
killing two Palestinians, and ravaging infrastructure.
As Israel’s
“Camps of Summer” operation continues, tensions across the occupied West Bank
are at an all-time high. An Israeli soldier was critically wounded on Wednesday
following a Palestinian ramming attack on a checkpoint near the city of
Ramallah.
Israel’s
operation in the West Bank began on 28 August and has since killed 47 people.
It is expected
to resume and continue with intensity for some time. Security officials told
Israel Hayom last week that the Israeli army has internally classified the
occupied West Bank as “the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza.”
Raids in the
northern West Bank are “set to continue in the foreseeable future,” the
security officials said.
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