The circumstances are still unclear. The Israeli army said on Saturday it had killed ten people and arrested eight others during a raid on the Nour Shams camp, near the town of Tulkarem, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
“Security forces eliminated 10 terrorists during clashes,” the army said in a statement, adding that they had been carrying out this operation “for more than 40 hours”. The Israeli army says these incursions target Palestinian armed groups, but civilians are often among the victims.
An AFP correspondent on site reported hearing explosions and gunfire on Saturday morning, and seeing a house explode and drones flying over the camp. In images from AFPTV, we can see military vehicles and soldiers roaming the alleys of the camp.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health, for its part, reports “several people killed and injured inside the camp, but the army is preventing medical teams from helping the injured.” A rescuer was injured by bullets, added the same source in a press release.