As bulldozers worked to remove the rubble, stunned Palestinians watched in silence. Others searched in the debris for what was here only a few hours ago. This was the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, leaving a scene reminiscent of the daily destruction inflicted in Gaza. Eighteen people were killed and many others wounded, including children.
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Among those killed was the small family of Mohamed Abu Zahra, his wife Saja Karoush, and their two young children, Karam and Sham Abu Zahra. Nimr Fayed, the targeted cafe’s owner, who lost his brother in the attack, described the horrific scene. Despite the repeated assaults, the shock and grief in the northern West Bank city remains. The attack was widely condemned by Palestinian parties as a “massacre” that marks the latest escalation by Israel against the Palestinian people.
The Israeli military confirmed carrying out the strike on Thursday, saying it eliminated the head of Hamas’s “network” in Tulkarm alongside other “significant terrorists”. There was no mention of the at least two children killed in the strike in the Israeli statement.
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