Six killed in Israeli drone attack on occupied West Bank’s Jenin camp
People gather in front of a hospital after several Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air attack in Jenin, West Bank, 14 January 2025
Al Jazeera reports on 15 January 2025:
A Palestinian teenager and three brothers were among at least six people killed in an Israeli air attack on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to reports.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa said an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a group of people near a traffic roundabout in the camp on Tuesday evening, killing six people, including a 15-year-old boy, and injuring several others.
Five other victims of the attack were aged between 23 and 34, and included three brothers, Wafa reports. Earlier this month, an Israeli drone attack on the West Bank’s Tammun town killed two Palestinian children and a 23-year-old from the same family.
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut said the drone strike on the Jenin camp comes amid intense Israeli military raids on local communities and the killing by Israeli forces of almost 800 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023 – as well as the arrest of several thousand others. “Israel’s defence minister has said that Israel will continue this policy across the West Bank,” Salhut said, adding that the violence in the occupied territory is now known as Israel’s “silent war”.
“It’s become known as the silent war – parallel, side by side with what Israel is doing in Gaza, but not getting as much attention,” Salhut said.
The deadly drone attack also comes amid a military operation launched in the Jenin camp by the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces over the last several weeks, targeting Palestinian resistance fighters, which has resulted in more than a dozen people killed.