Israel strikes West Bank using F-16 fighter jets in ‘unprecedented escalation’

For the first time since Palestine’s Second Intifada in 2002, F-16 planes were used to strike the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, a Palestinian official told The National.

The strike, at around 2.00am, destroyed a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in addition to a residential building nearby, Mr Hany Dabasa, the head of the Palestinian Union of the Wounded said. His organisation is a government entity that operates under the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.

Two people were killed in Jenin during Sunday’s strike, he said, and four…