Four men were killed by the occupation forces during separate raids on refugee camps in the West Bank.
On Friday evening, the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs announced the killing of three Palestinians by the IOF in Nour Shams camp, east of Tulkarm last Wednesday. Those killed are Jihad Mahmoud Hassan Masharqa, 40, Mohamed Ghassan Abu Abed from the same camp, and Khaled Mustafa Sharif Amer, 23, from Allar, north of Tulkarm.
The occupation authorities held their bodies, in an ongoing policy that violates international humanitarian law, which prohibits holding the bodies of victims and calls for their delivery to their families in order to have a respected burial.
On the same evening, the young man Adel Ahmed Adel Bashkar, 19, was killed by the occupation forces in Askar camp east of Nablus, after he was shot with live ammunition in the chest. He was transferred to the hospital in critical condition before his death was announced.
The number of those killed in Tulkarm during the ongoing Israeli aggression on the city and its two camps (Tulkarm and Nour Shams) has risen to 11, including two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant, and a seven-year-old child.
The IOF launched a large-scale aggression on the northern West Bank since January 21, targeting several Palestinian cities and towns, most notably Jenin and Tulkarm and their camps, in addition to Tamoun and the Far’a camp in Tubas Governorate.
Since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces and settlers have escalated their violations against Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the killing of 916 Palestinians, including 183 children, and the injury of about 7,000 others. Since the beginning of 2025, the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank has reached 81, including 11 children, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Field executions, holding the bodies, and the storming of cities and camps are serious violations of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit collective punishment and the direct targeting of civilians. The occupation’s policies in the West Bank, including the policy of settlement expansion, home demolitions, and random arrests, constitute war crimes according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The international community must intervene to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its repeated crimes and stop the violations that systematically target Palestinian civilians, as the international silence exacerbates the suffering of the Palestinian people.
