Massive protest after Israel strike kills five in West Bank refugee camp

17 November 2023 , 23:50

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A riot has broken out in a refugee camp in the West Bank

A mob of Palestinian protesters stormed the streets of a refugee camp after Israel bombed a home there.

In a video shared on Twitter, a group of men can be seen running through the streets of Balata refugee camp, which is not in Gaza but in the West Bank.

As they march, they can be heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" after one of the homes was reportedly destroyed in an Israeli airstrike.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, five people were killed and another two injured after the strike. The administrators of the camp said the strike targeted the local headquarters of Fatah, another Palestinian group, at the camp in Nablus.

The Israeli military acknowledged the reports and said it was working through them.

Israel admits ‘serious failures’ over deadly strike but insists aid workers were mistaken for Hamas

Israeli troops and Palestinian militants exchanged fire in the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank during an army raid and at least three Palestinians were killed, the Palestinian health ministry said earlier today.

Jenin has long been a flashpoint, and the military has carried out near-nightly operations there since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza six weeks ago.

Five were killed in the strike, it was reported

Israel said it was working through the reports

Gunbattles erupted in several locations, also drawing in fighters from Hamas, the militant group battling Israeli forces in Gaza. At one point, an Israeli aircraft targeted militants who threw explosives toward Israeli forces, the Israeli military said. The military said it killed five militants in the raid and arrested 15 Palestinians.

Airstrikes were once a rare attack mode in the West Bank but have grown increasingly common since war began.
Israel said its forces unearthed explosives under some streets and confiscated weapons, ammunition and surveillance equipment from a vehicle and two militant command centers.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that once at the hospital, Israeli forces detained and searched paramedic crews. Videos posted to social media by the organization showed Red Crescent paramedics with their hands raised in surrender, leaving the hospital building and walking slowly to stand in front of several Israeli military trucks lined up outside the hospital.
Palestinian health officials, who do not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths, said that 15 Palestinians were injured in the raid, four of them seriously.

Ryan Fahey