Since October, Israel has carried out at least 28 air strikes on the occupied West Bank, which have killed 77 Palestinians, including 14 children, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Al Jazeera reports.

The latest UN report on conditions for Palestinian people living in the occupied territory also notes that at least 200 houses were damaged during a recent Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank’s Tulkarem city.

Four people were killed by an Israeli air strike during the Nur Shams incursion, which also saw Israeli soldiers use armoured bulldozers and explosives to destroy seven residential buildings that left 47 people in 11 families, including 19 children, homeless.

The soldiers also damaged the main road linking Tulkarem with Nablus, which affected the water supply and interrupted power and internet services in the refugee camp.

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