Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli Tammun attack

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned an Israeli drone strike on the town of Tammun in the occupied West Bank, which killed two children, as a "clear reproduction of violations committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip".

Wafa news agency identified the victims, who were all cousins, as Reda Ali Ahmed Basharat, 9, Hamza Ammar Ahmed Basharat, 10, and Adam Khair al-Din Ahmed Basharat, 23.

The Israeli military claimed the strike targeted a "terror squad" accused of planting explosives.

“This comes as a continuation of the occupation’s crimes, as happened when it stormed Balata camp using an ambulance and targeted civilian citizens, which confirms the falsity of the occupation’s narratives and its direct and deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The Ministry considers these crimes a practical implementation and a clear reproduction of the violations committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and an application of its aggressive policies in the West Bank, in flagrant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions,” the statement added.