Thousands of mourners bid farewell on Thursday to six Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike in the Occupied West Bank a day earlier, Anadolu Agency reports.
The funeral procession set out from Jenin Governmental Hospital in the northern West Bank to the homes of their families in the Jenin camp for burial, according to an Anadolu reporter.
Waving Palestinian flags, mourners chanted slogans denouncing Israeli assaults while raising Palestinian flags as some participants fired into the air amid calls for revenge, witnesses said.
The Health Ministry said Wednesday that six people were killed and a seventh was seriously injured in an Israeli strike on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
An Israeli military statement said the strike targeted a site in the camp, as part of a joint military operation between the army and the Shin Bet domestic security service.
The air strike was the second to target the Jenin camp in less than 24 hours.
Last month, Palestinian security forces launched a security operation in the Jenin camp against what they called “outlaws” amid tension with resistance factions in the area.
Tension has been running high across the West Bank due to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed nearly 46,800 people, mostly women and children, since 7 October, 2023.
At least 858 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,700 others injured by Israeli army fire in the Occupied Territory, according to the Ministry of Health.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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