Two Palestinians killed by Israeli drone strike in Balata camp
OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Aug. 15 (YPA) – Two Palestinian young men were killed and four others injured, including a child and a woman, when an Israeli drone bombed a gathering of civilians in Balata camp, east of Nablus, at dawn on Thursday.
Four other young men were also injured by the occupation forces during confrontations with the occupation forces when they stormed Balata camp and the eastern region of Nablus.
The Palestine Red Crescent (PRC) confirmed the martyrdom of two young men, one of whom was 24 years old, and the injury of four others, including a child and a woman, as a result of shelling by a drone targeting a gathering of citizens in Balata Camp.
Local sources identified the martyrs as f Ahmad Sheikh Khalil and Wael Mish, from Balata camp.
PRC explained that its crews were able to transport a slain person from Balata camp to a hospital in Nablus, noting that the occupation forces detained the ambulance that was transporting the slain youth.
PRC also indicated that its crews were able to transport a person injured by live occupation bullets in the knee from Amman Street, stressing that the occupation forces prevented the ambulance crews from being present in the aforementioned street after transporting the injury.
Local sources said that a number of injuries were transferred to a hospital in Nablus.
The sources indicated that the occupation forces, which stormed the eastern Nablus area at midnight, obstructed the movement of ambulances transporting the injured.
PRC sources confirmed that three citizens were injured, following the ongoing storming of the eastern area of Nablus by the occupation forces, which provides protection for the colonists who raided Joseph’s Tomb east of Nablus.
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