As part of its ongoing crimes, the Israeli occupation bombed the town of Tamoun, north of the West Bank and southeast of Tubas, on Wednesday/Thursday night, killing ten Palestinians.
According to a brief statement from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, ten people were killed in an Israeli drone attack in Tamoun town. The victims were brought to the Tubas Turkish Governmental Hospital.
According to the ministry, the victims included: Mohammed Mithqal Fayez Bani Odeh (36), Ibrahim Mithqal Fayez Bani Odeh (33), Osama Marouf Dhiab Bani Odeh (19), Muntaser Ali Mohammed Bani Matar (25), Abdul Rahman Mahmoud Nimer Khatib (20), Omar Ali Mohammed Basharat (28), Saleh Khader Yousef Bani Matar (19), Suleiman Ahmed Suleiman Basharat (22), and Jihad Nasser Yousef Bani Matar (18).
Ten people were killed when an occupation aircraft bombed a group of people in the yard of a house in the town centre, according to witnesses.
The bombing of Tamoun occurs at the same time as the occupation’s 10-day assault on Jenin, which killed 17 civilians and injured scores more, along with extensive property and infrastructure destruction and the forced relocation of residents from their homes. The occupation also launched an assault on Tulkarm and its camps for the fourth day in a row, resulting in three martyrs and extensive property and infrastructure destruction.
Since attacks on civilians during times of conflict are forbidden by international humanitarian law, the occupation forces’ targeting of civilians is a grave transgression of that law. The Geneva Conventions require that parties to a conflict defend civilian lives and refrain from attacking them.
The international community must step in to enforce international justice norms and hold those responsible for targeting Palestinian civilians accountable because the ongoing aggression in the West Bank, including the attacks on Jenin and Tulkarm, worsens human suffering and intensifies the damage to Palestinian infrastructure.
