TUBAS, September 11, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city of Tubas, north of the West Bank.

WAFA correspondent reported that the occupation forces closed all entrances to the city of Tubas, and continued to besiege the Tubas Turkish Governmental Hospital.

The occupation forces obstructed the work of the Red Crescent crews and subjected ambulances at the entrance to the government hospital to inspection, before allowing them to enter.

Last night, the occupation forces stormed the city of Tubas and declared a curfew in it, and stormed the town of Tamoun, southeast of the city, and began raiding and searching citizens' homes.

Five Palestinian citizens were killed at dawn on Wednesday in an airstrike carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft targeting a group of citizens near Al-Tawhid Mosque in the city of Tubas.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its crews were able to retrieve the bodies of five people from the bombing site, where they were transferred to the hospital, while the occupation forces prevented ambulances from reaching the targeted site.

The slain youths were idenfitied to be Mohammad Saeed Hussein Sawafta,19, Majd Burhan Jamil Sawafta, 23, Qais Saeb Rateb Sawafta, 24, Yassin Ahmed Ali Sawafta, 22, and Talaba Mahmoud Jamil Basharat,18.

This shelling and raid comes within a series of ongoing Israeli escalations in the West Bank, which began on August 28 and has recently saw extensive raids and attacks in various Palestinian cities of Tubas, Jenin and Tulkarm.

K.T