Palestinian authorities said last Wednesday night that at least ten people were killed in the occupied West Bank in an airstrike by Israeli armed forces, which confirmed that they targeted a “cell of armed terrorists.”

The Palestinian Authority’s health ministry said the raid hit the village of Tamoun, in the province of Tubas, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

A local official spoke to the French news agency about a drone strike.

For their part, the Israeli armed forces confirmed that a raid was carried out by an air force aircraft on the intelligence base of the Shin Bet (Internal Security and Intelligence Agency). They did not give an account.

In a statement, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas denounced “the escalation of the crimes of the fascist occupation in the West Bank and the ongoing policy of killing heroic members of the resistance and mujahideen (i.e. ‘holy warriors’).”

According to the same source, the victims were targeted while moving in a vehicle.

Other Palestinian sources reported that an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a house.

For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent made it known that, in addition to the ten dead, there are wounded, some of whom are in critical condition.

The strike was launched more than a week after the start of a large-scale Israeli military operation in the town of Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp, an area designated a stronghold of armed Palestinian movements.

Violence escalated rapidly in the West Bank after war broke out between Hamas and the Israeli army in Gaza on October 7, 2023.

At least 873 Palestinians have died there in Israeli army operations or settler attacks since then, according to Palestinian Authority health ministry figures.

On the other side, at least 29 Israelis have died, either in Palestinian attacks or in hostilities during operations in the same period, according to official Israeli figures.