Palestinian health officials said Israeli forces killed a man on Saturday on the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. <\/p>\n
The health ministry in Ramallah identified the victim as 34-year-old Nour al-Din Kamal Hassan Fayyad, saying he was “killed by occupation forces’ fire in the Jenin camp”. <\/p>\n
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its teams in Jenin received a man “with no signs of breathing or pulse from inside Jenin camp after he sustained a live bullet wound to the thigh”. <\/p>\n
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n
Israel launched a major military operation in mid-January in multiple northern Palestinian refugee camps, where the army says it is seeking to root out armed groups. <\/p>\n
The operation, dubbed “Iron Wall”, has targeted Jenin and Tulkarem camps and displaced nearly 40,000 Palestinians, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA. <\/p>\n
The Israeli military has sealed off Jenin camp, allowing displaced residents only limited access to check on their homes and belongings. <\/p>\n
Refugee camps were created in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring Arab countries after the first Arab-Israeli war for Palestinians who fled or were expelled from what is now Israel at the time of its creation in 1948. <\/p>\n
Since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023, near-daily violence has also rocked the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967. <\/p>\n
Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed at least 1,072 Palestinians since then, including many gunmen, according to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry data. <\/p>\n
Official Israeli figures show at least 46 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations in the same period. <\/p>\n