Photo: John Wessels Agence France-Presse Mourners chant slogans as they carry the bodies of Palestinian militants, killed the previous day by Israeli special forces in Nablus, during their funeral procession to the nearby Askar refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, October 10, 2024.
Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem
Published yesterday at 11:40 PM Updated yesterday at 11:50 PM
- Middle East
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had killed the leader of Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nour Shams in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, the day before.
“A plane struck the area of Tulkarm and eliminated Mohammed Abdullah, leader of the terrorist network of Islamic Jihad in Nour Shams,” the army said in a statement, which also claimed to have killed another fighter.
According to her, Abdullah was the successor to Mohammed Jaber, known as “Abu Choujaa,” who was killed on August 29 in an Israeli raid on the Nour Shams camp.
Islamic Jihad, an Islamist movement with a strong presence in the refugee camps in the northern West Bank, did not immediately confirm.
The Israeli army accuses Mohammed Abdullah of being “involved in numerous attacks in the region,” according to a statement published on Telegram.
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In Nour Shams, the armed branches of the various Palestinian movements regularly announce having lost men, in combat against soldiers or during strikes by Israeli aircraft.
More than 13,000 Palestinians are crammed into a fifth of a square kilometer in the Nour Shams refugee camp, opened in 1952 to accommodate Palestinians who had fled or been forced to flee villages around Haifa on the coast when Israel was created four years earlier.
According to the UN, which runs it, it is one of the 19 camps in the West Bank most affected by health problems.