RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Israel’s military confirmed on Thursday that it had killed 10 Palestinians in a strike on a village in the occupied West Bank the day before.
During a joint “counterterrorism” operation by the military and domestic security agency, an air force “aircraft struck a gathering of armed terrorists in the area of Tamun” late on Wednesday, the military said in a statement.
“Approximately 10 terrorists were eliminated in the strike,” it said, adding two of the militants killed were involved in an attack that claimed the life of an Israeli soldier and injured three others in Tamun on Jan. 20.
The army said the two had also been “involved in additional shooting and explosives attacks.”
On Wednesday night, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah said an Israeli drone strike had killed at least 10 people, while the military claimed at the time that it had struck an “armed cell.”
Violence has soared throughout the West Bank since Hamas’s attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, which sparked a devastating Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 874 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
