TULKAREM: The Zionist army said Saturday troops had killed 10 Palestinians in an ongoing raid around Nur Shams, a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. AFP journalists heard gunshots and saw houses hit by blasts as Zionist drones flew overhead and armored vehicles moved through the camp.

Since early last year, violence has flared in the West Bank, which the Zionist entity has occupied since 1967. It has escalated further since war broke out in Gaza on Oct 7. The Palestinian health ministry said it had confirmed 11 wounded in the Zionist raid, seven of them “wounded by live gunshots”. It said a paramedic shot while trying to get to the wounded was among them.

The health ministry said medics had been alerted to “a number of killed and injured” inside the camp, but said the army was “denying them access to tend to the wounded”. An AFP journalist said paramedics had tried to enter the camp but had been refused access by the army. On Friday the health ministry said 16-year-old Qais Fathi Nasrallah was killed by Zionist troops in the nearby Tulkarem refugee camp.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said he died after being “shot in the head by (Zionist) live gunfire”. It was unclear exactly when he died. A 30-year-old man, Salim Faisal Ghanem, was “killed by (Zionist) troops” on Friday in the Nur Shams camp, Wafa said. Residents contacted by AFP on Saturday said there was no electricity in the camp and food was running short, saying nobody was allowed to enter or leave. — AFP