Israeli forces raid Tulkarm, killing three in attack on vehicle

The Israeli military is conducting an ongoing raid of Tulkarm city and its camp in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, two people were killed and three wounded when Israeli forces targeted a vehicle near the camp. Local sources who spoke to Al Jazeera said that the people killed in the attack were members of Hamas.

The same sources reported that Israeli forces were stationed in several of the city's neighbourhoods, and that they had sent for reinforceents.

In a statement in response to the attack, Hamas said it was a “desperate attempt to eliminate the resistance”, and that the “the timing of the assassination, which coincided with the occupation’s intensification of its war in the West Bank, confirms that it will not bring it security and stability”.

Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources, that Israeli military vehicles stormed the city this afternoon and were stationed in front of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital.

Israeli forces then stopped and searched ambulance crews, obstructing their work.