An Israeli armoured vehicle convoy leaves after a raid at the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near Tulkarm on March 21, 2024. AFP
Israeli forces withdrew from Nur Shams in the morning, AFP correspondents said, hours after the occupation army announced around midnight (2200 GMT on Wednesday) it had launched an operation in the area.
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) said on social media platform X that its "ambulance teams have just transported an 18-year-old man who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Nur Shams camp", bringing the death toll in the raid to four people.
Two were killed by air strike and two by live bullets, the Red Crescent said.
One of the fatalities was identified by his family as Nidal Ali Abu Abeid, a vegetable seller at the northern West Bank camp, near the Palestinian town of Tulkarm.
His uncle, Ziad Ali Abu Abeid, 52, told AFP at the morgue that Nidal "wanted to build a future".
"He wanted to make a living for himself," the uncle said.
"The (Israeli) occupation came and killed all the ambition he had, like for any other person in the camp."
Israeli forces regularly carry out incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank but until several months ago had rarely struck the territory -- occupied since 1967 -- from the air.
The Nur Shams raid came amid intensifying Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, now in its sixth month.
Including the latest deaths, at least eight Palestinians were killed in less than 24 hours in the West Bank, authorities and medics said.
Three Palestinians, including an alleged Islamic Jihad commander, were killed Wednesday in an Israeli strike on a car in Jenin in the northern West Bank.
One Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah.
At least 443 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or terrorist settlers across the West Bank since October 7, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Thousands more have been arrested by Israel in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority says.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online
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