Tubas: Israeli aircraft targets and kills five Palestinians near mosque

TUBAS: Five Palestinian citizens were killed at dawn on Wednesday in an airstrike carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft targeting a group of citizens near Al-Tawhid Mosque in the city of Tubas. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its crews were able to retrieve the bodies of five people from the bombing site, where they were transferred to the hospital, while the occupation forces prevented ambulances from reaching the targeted site. The slain youths were idenfitied to be Mohammad Saeed Hussein Sawafta,19, Majd Burhan Jamil Sawafta, 23, Qais Saeb Rateb Sawafta, 24, Yassin Ahmed Ali Sawafta, 22, and Talaba Mahmoud Jamil Basharat,18. This bombing comes as part of an escalation campaign launched by the occupation forces on the city of Tubas, which saw a large-scale storming of its outskirts and neighborhoods in the early hours of dawn, as the occupation forces declared a curfew on the city, and deployed in its northern areas. The raid was accompanied by intensive flying of reconnaissance planes and h elicopters at low altitudes over the governorate. In another escalation, the occupation forces surrounded the Tubas Turkish Governmental Hospital on the northern outskirts of the city, where they closed the roads leading to it and prevented ambulances from reaching the hospital. They also deployed soldiers around the city, which led to an escalation of tension among the residents. The occupation operations were not limited to the city of Tubas only, as local sources reported that the occupation forces later stormed the town of Tamoun, southeast of Tubas, as part of what appears to be a large-scale aggression against the governorate. This shelling and raid comes within a series of ongoing Israeli escalations in the West Bank, which has recently saw extensive raids and attacks in various Palestinian cities. Yesterday evening, the occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm and its two camps, resulting in the killing of two civilians and the injury of ten others with several injuries. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA