Tel Aviv [Israel], January 18: Four people have been killed in an Israeli army operation in the town of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank. The dead were killed in a drone attack, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Wednesday.
The Israeli military confirmed on request that it had carried out "counterterrorism activities in the area." Israel's army did not initially provide any further details about the operation in the town in the north-west of the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military had previously announced that it had killed the leader of a terrorist group in an airstrike during another mission near the West Bank city of Nablus. The statement said that the cell had been planning an attack and had been financed and directed by "Iranian sources." The situation in the West Bank has worsened significantly since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip more than four months ago. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
