Israel Killed Three Palestinians in Rare West Bank Airstrike
- Israeli forces conducted a rare airstrike in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing three Palestinians, including 22-year-old Qais Bitawi, who was identified by the Israeli military as a Hamas operative involved in militant activities.
- The airstrike was part of Operation Iron Wall, a campaign targeting armed Palestinian groups in the northern West Bank, which has displaced nearly 40,000 people, according to the UN agency UNRWA.
- Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad both claimed the men killed were their fighters, and Hamas condemned the strike as a cowardly assassination operation.
- Since October 7, 2023, violence in the West Bank has escalated sharply, with the airstrike in Jenin marking a rare Israeli aerial attack in the area since January 2025.
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The Israeli army announced that it had killed a Hamas activist and two accomplices who were travelling in a car in the Jenin area during a drone strike in the West Bank on Friday.
The Israeli army claimed that it attacked and killed "three terrorists" this Friday in the Jenin area, in the northern occupied West Bank, in an unusual aerial bombardment of that Palestinian territory.
The Israeli Army claimed to have killed three people this Friday in the Jenin region in the northern occupied West Bank in an unusual aerial bombardment in that Palestinian territory. The West Bank, the headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), records a sharp increase in the violence committed by Israeli settlers since the beginning of the war in Gaza. The territory, however, is not usually the target of Israeli Army air strikes…
Three Palestinians were killed by an air strike by an Israeli occupation aircraft on Friday and targeted a house under construction in the Harish al-Sa'id area west of Jenin city.
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