Palestinian Authority: Four dead in Israeli attack in West Bank

JERUSALEM: The Palestinian AuthorityThe Ministry of Health said on Wednesday, Israeli attack killed four Palestinians in Nur Shams Camp in the occupied West Bank.
In recent weeks there has been an increase in violence in the camp. Israeli attacks and the attacks by Israeli settlers have reached a level not seen for decades, against the backdrop of Gaza War.
The Ministry of Health based in Ramallah said four people were killed “by the occupation’s bombing of the Nur Shams camp” near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the dead were young men between the ages of 22 and 25 who were killed in an Israeli drone attack near the center of the camp.
Violence in the West Bank had already risen sharply before the Hamas attack on October 7, which marked the start of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, and has increased again since then.
According to Palestinian authorities, a woman and a child were killed and four others injured in an Israeli attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp on Monday.
In April, 14 people were killed in a two-day Israeli attack in Nur Shams, the Palestinian Red Crescent said at the time.
According to a Health Ministry count, at least 556 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank since the Gaza conflict began.
According to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures, at least 15 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks in the West Bank during the same period.