News - Middle East: Israeli forces have shot and killed four young Palestinian men during a raid in a town in the northeastern sector of the West Bank, Palestinian security sources say, as violence surges in the occupied region.

The sources told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA that undercover special forces stormed Tammun, located five kilometers (3 miles) south of Tubas, on Thursday and surrounded a house before sending military reinforcements into the town. 

The four young men were killed after Israeli occupation troops besieged them inside a house and targeted the building they were in with several missiles. 

They added that the occupation forces then went inside and took their bodies away.

The development came hours after a young Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli occupation forces during a raid in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported to WAFA that Israeli troops broke into the town, sparking clashes during which soldiers opened fire, and wounded a young man with a bullet to the back.

The sources indicated that Israeli soldiers fired heavily and attempted to prevent ambulances from reaching the injured person.

The Israeli military initiated its assault on the occupied West Bank on January 21, stating that the objective was to target the resistance fighters linked to the Jenin Battalion.

Since the beginning of the war on Gaza in October 2023, at least 962 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops and illegal settlers, and more than 7,000 others injured, in the West Bank, according to Palestinian figures.

Last July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, demanding the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds.

Source: Press TV