The Hamas military commander of Tulkarem, West Bank, was killed in an air raid. This was stated by the IDF, the Israeli army, according to which it was a targeted killing which hit a vehicle killing four other people. The Israeli media reported it.
The main victim is identified as Sheikh Haitham Balidi, commander of Tulkarem of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades. News also reported by the Palestinian agency Wafa, which spoke of a vehicle hit near Tulkarem with five deaths, without however revealing its identity.
The victims were taken to the Thabet Hispitale in Tulkarem, Wafa reports, adding that the corpses were charred and unrecognizable. Among the civilians, 25-year-old Yaytham Nuriddin Bleidi, a resident of the local refugee camp, was identified. After the raid, Wafa writes, Israeli forces fenced off the area of the attack.
(Unioneonline/vf)