Two Palestinians martyred, three injured in Israeli strikes on Jenin mosque

At least two Palestinian people have been martyred and three others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, as the illegal entity ramps up its violent raids across the Palestinian territories.

Palestine's official WAFA news agency said the casualties occurred after the Israeli airstrike targeted the Al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the early hours of Sunday.

The news agency cited the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) in Jenin as saying that one of the two victims was identified as Mohammad Hussein Abdel-Hafiz. The other victim is yet to be identified due to the fact that his body was mutilated as a result of the Israeli attack.

The PRC said three Palestinians were injured in the raid, with one of them sustaining shrapnel wounds.

Israeli media claimed that the two assassinated in the airstrike were members of the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and that Al-Ansar Mosque was used as a “command center to plan attacks” against the occupying regime.

Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was martyred during a military raid of Nablus and another was shot and martyred in the south of Tubas as stated in a series of statements by the Health Ministry.

The two victims were identified as Adnan Bani Odeh, 19 years old, and Malik Sharqawi, 26, according to local reports.

On Thursday, Israel's military raided and carried out an air strike in a refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, claiming the lives of at least 12 Palestinians.

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