JENIN: Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and wounded another in an air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, the Palestine health ministry said, in what Israel’s military said was an operation targeting Palestinian.
The Israeli military said an aircraft struck four Palestinian fighters in a car in the Jenin area, among them two senior members who had led attacks on Israelis.
Mahmoud Ghrayyeb, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp whosaid he witnessed the incident through a surveillance camera,said the strike hit the car around 5:37 p.m. when traffic wasbusy ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the fast during theMuslim holy month of Ramadan.
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“We saw limbs flying onto the street,” he said. “A man andhis wife were in another car driving past, they were saved by amiracle.”
Footage from Ghrayyeb’s CCTV, shared with Reuters, showed acar on a busy road suddenly engulfed by a flame and veering off.Another car that was seen approaching from the oppositedirection then stops and retreats.
As night fell, firefighters arrived at the scene and peopleinspected the car, seen burned down to the frame.
Since the Gaza war broke out in October, Israel has steppedup military raids in the West Bank, where violence had alreadybeen surging for over a year. U.N. records show that at least358 Palestinians have been killed there by Israeli forces orsettlers since Oct. 7, a quarter of them children.
Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem are among territoriesIsrael occupied in the 1967 Middle East war and where somePalestinians have taken up arms to resist Israeli military rule.