A 19 -year -old Palestinian dies in northern West Bank for shots of the Israeli army
A 19 -year -old Palestinian died late on Friday night due to the gunfire of Israeli troops in the Askar refugee camp, near Nablus (northern Bank), the Ministry of Palestinian Health has confirmed.
The young man, identified as Adel Ahmed Adel Bashkar, was shot in the chest during an army raid near Askar, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa. He was transferred to the hospital, where he was classified as serious injured and finally succumbed to his wounds. With Bashkar, there are already 81, of them 11 minors (according to Wafa’s count), the Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in the West Bank who has suffered a drastic increase of rags of troops and colonists’ attacks since this 2025 began.
“We are engaged in hard fighting with the forces of the Zionist enemy that broke into the Ashkar camp,” the martyrs of Al Aqsa brigades announced in their dissemination channels, armed arm linked to the Fatah secular movement. So far, no Palestinian militia has claimed as its fighter the deceased young man.
Northern Bank suffered since January 21, an intense military operation baptized as Iron wallwhich had its epicenter in Yenín’s refugee camp, but then extended to neighbor Tamún (Tubas), the Tulkarem refugee camp and, last Sunday, the neighboring Nur Shams camp.
Before Bashkar’s death, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the deaths of Yihad Mahmud Hassan Masharqa, 40; Jaled Mustafa Sharif Amer (whose death was previously known), 23; and Muhamad Gasan Abu Abed, whose age was not announced. All of them died in Nur Shams for shots of the Israeli army shortly after the operation extended there.
Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes in Nur Shams in the early hours of Wednesday. Around 40,000 Palestinians have been forced to move since the Israeli macrooperation began in northern Bank and today celebrates 26 days, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Yenín’s refugee camp, historical bastion of the Palestinian militias, has become a ghost city, and Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, has already warned that the army will maintain a presence in the area even after ending The offensive.
Israel intensified its foustries in the West Banking due to the attacks of the Gaza militiamen headed by Hamas of October 7, 2023, in which almost 1,200 people died in Israeli territory and another 251 were kidnapped. Israeli retaliation in the occupied territory of the West Bank has claimed the lives of 916 Palestinians, of which 183 were minors, reports Wafa. (EFE)
