Two Palestinians were killed early this morning in an Israeli drone attack on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
"Two men, aged 18 and 20, were killed and seven people were wounded, one of them seriously, in Balata, a refugee camp in Nablus, where 33.000 people crowded into one square kilometer," the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that a woman and a child were among the wounded in the drone strike.
The Israeli army, for its part, announced that an Israeli plane attacked and eliminated two armed activists who posed a threat to the forces operating in that zone.
"At the same time, the army and the police secure the entrance of the faithful to Joseph's tomb," added the Israeli army.
The grave is a disputed shrine near the camp that was hit and was occupied by Jewish worshipers at the time of the attack.
For the Jews, the remains of the biblical figure Joseph are found in that grave near Nablus, and Muslims believe that a Muslim priest is buried there.
Since the start of the Gaza war, which began after the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, violence has increased in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967 and geographically separated from Gaza by Israeli territory.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war in that territory, the Israeli army or settlers have killed at least 627 Palestinians, according to Agence France-Presse's calculations based on official Palestinian data, and at least 18 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks, according to Israeli official data.
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