Five Palestinian citizens killed in Zionist drone strike on Tubas

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Sept. 11 (YPA) – Five Palestinian citizens were killed at dawn on Wednesday in an airstrike carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft targeting a group of citizens near Al-Tawhid Mosque in the city of Tubas.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its crews were able to retrieve the bodies of five people from the bombing site, where they were transferred to the hospital, while the occupation forces prevented ambulances from reaching the targeted site.

The slain youths were identified as Mohammad Saeed Hussein Sawafta,19, Majd Burhan Jamil Sawafta, 23, Qais Saeb Rateb Sawafta, 24, Yassin Ahmed Ali Sawafta, 22, and Talaba Mahmoud Jamil Basharat,18.

The Israeli occupation forces have imposed a siege on the Tubas Turkish Government Hospital.

This bombing comes as part of an escalation campaign launched by the occupation forces on the city of Tubas, which saw a large-scale storming of its outskirts and neighborhoods in the early hours of dawn, as the occupation forces declared a curfew on the city, and deployed in its northern areas.

The occupation army brought in vehicles and bulldozers to the city, accompanied by intensive reconnaissance drone flights and low-flying helicopters over the governorate.

A general strike was declared in Tubas city.

@E.Y.M