The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the attack was carried out by an “Israeli drone.”
Jenin, West Bank:
Palestinian officials said two people were killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike in the occupied West Bank, which the Israeli military said targeted a “terrorist cell” in the Jenin area.
“Two bodies were taken to Jenin Public Hospital after the occupiers (Israeli forces) bombed a car in the center of the city,” the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the attack was carried out by an “Israeli drone.”
The army said in a statement that it had carried out an “airstrike against a terrorist cell in the Jenin area.”
Video footage posted online shows a vehicle on fire in the middle of a street, while some footage shows a crowd surrounding a charred car trying to open its doors.
“There are dead people in the car,” a man shouts as a stretcher is brought in by rescuers.
Since Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, violence has flared in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 and geographically separated from Gaza by Israeli territory.
At least 635 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since October 7, according to an AFP count based on Palestinian official figures.
At least 18 Israelis, including soldiers, were killed in Palestinian attacks during the same period, according to Israeli official figures.
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