RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – Thousands attended on Wednesday the funeral procession for six Palestinians martyred in an airstrike by the Zionist regime in the occupied West Bank.
Mourners waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans condemning the Zionist regime’s atrocities in the occupied territories as they marched to bury the six men in the northern city of Jenin, witnesses said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that six people were martyred in an Israeli strike in the Jenin refugee camp late Tuesday.
Palestinian group Hamas confirmed that four members were among those killed in the Israeli attack.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, for its part, condemned the regime’s strike as an attempt to fuel the situation in the West Bank.
“This is a completely unacceptable step, and aims to ignite the internal Palestinian situation,” the authority said in a statement.
Last month, Palestinian security forces launched a operation in the Jenin camp against what they called “outlaws” amid tension with resistance factions in the area.
Tension has been running high across the West Bank due to the Zionist regime’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed over 46,700 people, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023.
At least 854 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,700 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice declared the regime’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Al-Quds.
Save the Children said on Tuesday that Israel’s use of explosive weapons in Gaza condemned an average of 475 children each month – or 15 children a day – to potentially lifelong disabilities last year.
These injuries include loss of limbs, sight and hearing. The group said the figure comes from an analysis conducted by humanitarian organizations on the ground in Gaza, which shows that at least 5,230 children sustained injuries requiring significant rehabilitation support in the first 11 months of 2024.
But this kind of support is currently inaccessible in Gaza due to Israel’s attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers, as well as its restrictions on the entry of critical supplies, leaving the wounded children with a high likelihood of disability.