Israeli military kills Palestinian youth in Nur Shams refugee camp in West Bank

Amid the Israeli military’s expansion of assaults in the West Bank, the regime’s forces have shot and killed a young Palestinian man during a raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northwestern side of the occupied Palestinian territory.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing a statement from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported late on Sunday that Eyas Adli Fakhri al-Akhras, 20, was killed “after being shot by Israeli forces” in the camp, located three kilometers (1.8 miles) east of Tulkarm.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), for its part, said its paramedics transferred Akhras to a hospital in Tulkarm after he was critically wounded.

Local sources said the Palestinian youth was killed during clashes at close range with Israeli forces in the Nur Shams camp.

Later in a statement, al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement, mourned the loss of Akhras, saying he was one of its fighters in Tulkarm.

It said that a group of its fighters had been engaged in the shooting and ambush operation that targeted Israeli troops in the camp.

At dawn on Sunday, Israeli forces had launched an operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp as part of an ongoing offensive in nearby camps.

The Palestinian health ministry said 23-year-old Sundus Jamal Muhammad Shalabi was killed in the incident, with her husband Yazan Abu Shola critically injured.

The mother-to-be was dead when she arrived at a local hospital, the ministry said.

Israeli forces kill Palestinian pregnant woman, unborn child in West Bank

Israeli forces fatally shoot an eight-month Palestinian pregnant mother and her unborn baby during their raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp northwest of the occupied West Bank.

“Medical teams were unable to save the baby's life due to the (Israeli) occupation preventing the transfer of the injured to the hospital,” it added.

The Israeli military launched a large-scale offensive in the occupied West Bank on January 21, just two days after the Gaza ceasefire deal between the Tel Aviv regime and Hamas came into effect.

The onslaught has resulted in the displacement of more than 35,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarm and Far’a refugee camps.

According to the United Nations, some 90 percent of the residents of the Jenin and Tulkarm refugee camps have been forced to flee.

Since the offensive began, Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians. As of February 6, the UN has documented 39 killings, including 25 in Jenin, 10 in Tubas and four in Tulkarm. Three more – including a pregnant woman – were killed in the Nur Shams refugee camp on Sunday.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says displacement and destruction in the Jenin camp have turned the area into a “ghost town,” while the UN human rights office says the killings and the demolition of homes “indicate ongoing violations of international law.”

Israeli rights group B’Tselem said “Israel is continuing its all-out war on the Palestinian people” with soldiers and settlers ramping up attacks on the occupied West Bank.

“Since the ceasefire began in Gaza, the West Bank has been on fire,” the group said in a post on the social media platform X.

“Settlers attacked communities almost every night last week, sometimes with soldiers standing by” it said, while military raids on cities and villages in the West Bank have killed dozens of people since January 19.

“This is not what ceasefire looks like,” it added.

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