Two Palestinian women and an unborn child were killed by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on the Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Sundus Jamal Shalabi, 23, who was eight months pregnant, and her unborn baby were shot and killed by Israeli gunfire on Sunday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Shalabi’s husband was critically injured in the attack.
Medical teams were unable to save Shalabi and her unborn child due to Israeli forces blocking access, according to the ministry.
The Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry said Shalabi’s death was the latest example of the Israeli military’s targeting of civilians.
“The occupation completed its crime by obstructing the work of the ambulance crews twice, the first time by obstructing the ambulance from reaching the injured and trying to rescue them. And the second time by deliberately detaining the ambulance and delaying its arrival to Thabet Thabet governmental hospital, which is already besieged by the occupation forces,” the health ministry said.
The ministry added that it was following up on “crimes of murder, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement committed by the occupation forces with various international bodies and UN institutions to hold Israeli war criminals accountable.”
