Ramallah (Reuters) – Six Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, including five in a drone strike during an Israeli raid, the Palestinian health ministry and the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said.
They said the dead included a 13-year-old who died after Israeli forces prevented an ambulance from transferring him to the hospital to receive medical treatment.
Israel’s military confirmed the drone strike, and said the strike had killed an unspecified number of Palestinians who were spotted hurling explosive devices and firing at its forces.
Israeli troops were operating “to expose explosive devices planted under roads to attack the security forces”, the military said in a statement.
The troop found weapons, ammunition and explosive devices, dismantled a bombmaking facility and located tunnels and an observation control room, it said.
One other person was injured in the attack on Al-Sibat neighbourhood in the city of Jenin, WAFA reported.
Jenin’s hospital director told the agency the Palestinians were directly targeted.
Israeli forces are encircling three hospitals in the area, WAFA added.
Prior to this attack, the health ministry reported that 275 Palestinians had been killed in the occupied West Bank since the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by gunmen of the Islamist movement Hamas operating out of Gaza.
