Israel strike in West Bank kills freed Palestinian prisoner

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An Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed two Palestinians, including a former prisoner released in November, Palestinian sources and the army said. It was the second such fatality within three days involving a former Palestinian inmate freed during a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict, AFP reports.

“Two men, aged 18 and 20, were killed and seven people were wounded, one of them seriously, in Balata” refugee camp in Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.

Wael Misha, 18, was one of 240 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails in November in exchange for 105 hostages held in Gaza, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club watchdog told AFP.

The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said a woman and a child were among those wounded in Balata on Thursday, describing the incident as a “drone strike”.

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