Four Killed as Israel’s Large-scale Assault on West Bank Enters Third Week

Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to media reports, as Israel’s biggest military operation in the Palestinian territory since the early 2000s entered its third week.

The Palestinian Wafa news agency said that three people were killed in a drone attack on a vehicle in the city of Tulkarem on Wednesday evening while another was killed by an Israeli sniper in the Far’a refugee camp, near the city of Tubas.

The Israeli drone attack on Tulkarem set fire to the vehicle as well as a nearby home, Wafa reported.

And in Far’a, the Israeli sniper killed 46-year-old Sufyan Jawad Fayez Abdul Jawad after shooting him in the heart, the agency said.

There was no immediate comment from Israel.

The killings took the overall death toll from Israel’s large-scale militarised operation, launched in the West Bank on August 28, to at least 50. The figure included five people who were killed in an air attack on Tubas early on Wednesday.