An Israeli warplane said it fired three missiles at a group of people in the Jenin camp.
A Palestinian boy and three brothers were among the least Six people have been killed on an Israeli plane According to reports, at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank where people were living.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that an Israeli plane fired three rockets at a group of people near the camp's traffic circle on Tuesday evening, killing six people, including a 15-year-old boy, and wounding several others.
The other five people involved in the attack were between the ages of 23 and 34, and included three brothers, Wafa said. Earlier this month, an Israeli airstrike on the occupied West Bank town of Tammun killed two Palestinian children and a 23-year-old from the same family.
Al Jazeera's Hamdah Salhut said the drone attack on the Jenin camp comes amid Israeli military attacks on local communities and the killing of nearly 800 Palestinian Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023 – and the arrest of several thousand. others.
“The Israeli defense minister has said that Israel will continue this process across the West Bank,” Salhut said, adding that the violence in the occupied territories is now being called “a war of peace” by Israel.
“It's known as a silent war – similar, alongside what Israel is doing in Gaza, but not receiving attention,” Salhut said.
The deadly drone strike also comes amid military operations launched in the Jenin camp by the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces in the past few weeks, have been targeting Palestinian fighters, resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen people.
Anwar Rajab, a spokesman for the PA security group, said the attack was intended to “disrupt the efforts” of the regime to achieve security and stability in Jenin.
Hassan Khraisheh, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the drone strikes show Israel's willingness to kill Palestinians indiscriminately.
“This is a clear message from Israel that every Palestinian wants,” Khraisheh told Al Jazeera.
The drone strikes have also sparked anger among local residents as they come within the PA's military base in Jenin, Khraisheh said, adding that The PA must now leave Jenin and join other Palestinian groups in protesting the Israeli occupation.
“Our enemy is one – whether it is the militants or the (PA) security forces,” he said.
“No one is safe from Israeli terrorists.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the Jenin Battalion of Palestinian Islamic Jihad said that they agreed to their actions to end the Palestinian conflict and stop the bloodshed among Palestinians in the occupied territory. The group did not disclose details of the agreement, but said it guarantees “the legitimate right to resist terrorist activity”.
Along with its campaign against the fighters in Jenin, whom it calls “terrorists”, the PA also said. they stopped Al Jazeera in a West Bank government that is busy in what appears to be a crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression by government officials.