The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, have confirmed that one of their commanders was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank city of the same name.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said 18 people were killed in the Israeli attack on the Tulkarm camp. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the assassination of a local Hamas commander in Tulkarm. Zahi Yasser Aufi. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) strongly condemned the Israeli attack on the camp.
“The Al-Qassam Brigades are in mourning… Commander Zahi Yasser Aufi, who died in Tulkarm province,” – the military wing of Hamas stated in a statement.
The brigades added that, in addition to Aufi, seven more militants were killed in Tulkarem.
