Six Palestinians martyred, dozen injured in Israeli attack on Jenin camp

At least six Palestinians have been martyred and more than a dozen others wounded during a raid by Israeli forces on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry, in a brief statement on Tuesday, identified one of the victims as 26-year-old Mohammad Wael Ghazawi, saying that the young Palestinian man "was murdered by occupation (Israeli) bullets to the chest in Jenin."

Other victims were identified as Majd Mohammad Huseinieh, 26, Tareq Ziad Natour, 27, Ziad Amin Zareini, 29, Abdul Fattah Hussein Khrousheh, 49, and Mutasem Nasser Sabbagh, 22.

It added that at least 16 more Palestinians had been wounded in the brutal raid, which involved, according to reports, dozens of armored vehicles, military helicopters, snipers, drones, and bulldozers.

The Ministry further said that two of the injured were in critical condition. One of them was shot in the chest and the other in the pelvis.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas issued a statement later in the day, expressing condolences to the families of Palestinians martyred in the Israeli raid.

Hamas said the Israeli crimes and massacres will not intimidate Palestinians but will make them more determined to confront the Israeli forces and settlers. 

The official Palestinian Wafa news agency said the Israeli army forces had fired a missile at one of the houses in the camp.

Smoke could be seen billowing from the house, witnesses told the Anadolu news agency.

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