People walk amid rubble after an Israeli raid at Nur Shams camp, Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
15 Palestinians killed across West Bank in Israeli forces raid, settler violence: health officials | CBC News Loaded15 Palestinians killed across West Bank in Israeli forces raid, settler violence: health officials
An extended raid by Israeli forces began in the early hours of Friday in the Nur Shams refugee camp, near the flashpoint Palestinian city of Tulkarm, and they were still exchanging fire with armed fighters well into Saturday. The West Bank, a kidney-shaped area about 100 kilometres long and 50 kilometres wide, has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since it was seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.The war in Gaza has overshadowed continuing violence in the territory, including regular army raids on militant groups, rampages by Jewish settlers in Palestinian villages and street attacks by Palestinians on Israelis.
Relatives of Palestinians killed during an Israeli raid at the Nur Shams camp mourn at a morgue in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. Israeli strikes hit the southern city of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians are sheltering, as well as Nuseirat in central Gaza, where at least five houses were destroyed, and the Jabalia area in the north, health officials and Hamas media said.
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