Two Palestinian children 9 and 15 years They died this Wednesday Israeli Army shots in the West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The minors were identified by Health as Adam Samer al Ghoul, 8 years old, and Basil Suleiman Abu al Wafa, 15.

The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that the children were killed in an Israeli Army raid in Jenin, during which troops reportedly carried out “a massive arrest campaign“and forced the evacuation of a neighborhood.

Wafa also denounced that the soldiers caused massive destruction in the streets of the city, They demolished civil infrastructure – including part of the electrical and hydraulic network – and they bombed a house from the air using a drone.

Asked about the two deaths, the Israeli Army said it was investigating what happened. According to a joint statement from the Army, Police and Israeli intelligence, these three forces carried out an assault on the Jenin refugee camp in which they killed two alleged “high-ranking terrorists”, one of them identified as Mohamed Zabeidi and Husam Hanon. The note describes Zebeidi as one of “the main terrorists in the refugee camp.”

The Army also reported the arrest of 17 other “wanted people” and that “the terrorists” threw explosives at the forces, “who shot at the terrorists and hit them.” However, The Army does not make any mention of the two children, ages 9 and 15, killed by their gunshots.according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

These episodes occur while the sixth day of the truce and exchange of hostages for prisoners between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas passes, after more than a month and a half of war.

On the other hand, the death of these two children follows that of this Tuesday two other minors aged 14 and 17 and of a young man of 26 by shots from the Israeli Army during clashes in two towns in the West Bank.

Israeli arrest raids in East Jerusalem and the West Bank have accelerated after the start of the war with Hamas in Gaza and, since then, according to data from the NGO Addameer, an advocate for Palestinian prisoners, more than 3,260 Palestinians have been detainedamong them 120 women and more than 200 minors.