Israeli Drone Attack Kills Two Palestinians in Jenin, Northern West Bank

The IDF killed at least two Palestinians in a drone attack while they were driving in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

Videos circulating on social media showed a car set ablaze after a missile struck it as emergency workers rushed to the site of the attack to retrieve the casualties and put out the fire.

Israeli Army justified the murder saying that they attacked a “terrorist squad” and has not yet given any further details about the event.

Another footage of the moment of the attack.

The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening the killing of two citizens, including an 18-year-old, due to an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in the West Bank city of Jenin. The attack left two charred bodies and also… pic.twitter.com/g94DZ3Bwu5

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the death at least two Palestinians had died in the attack and were taken to the Government Hospital in Jenin.

Initially, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that it had moved an 18-year-old dead person to the centre along with a seriously injured person who would be the second deceased.

On Thursday, the latest pre-attack drone attack in the Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus killed then 18-year-old Wael Bilal Masha and 20-year-old Ahmed Sheikh Khalil.

Al Mayadeen and other news agencies reported confrontations between locals and the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Ya’bad to the west of Jenin, northern West Bank, media say that occupation forces fired sound bombs and tear gas at locals in the town.