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Palestinian Ministry of Health: Tulkarm raid death toll includes child and woman

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has released the names of five Palestinians killed in an hours-long Israeli incursion on Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank earlier on Tuesday. 

In a statement on Telegram, the ministry said that fatalities included a girl and a 50-year-old woman.

Ashraf Eid Zaher Nafeh, Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Awad and Muhammad Badie Muhammad Radwan were identified as the young men killed in the attack.

The girl was named as Muhammad Jumaa Salama Eid and the woman, Muhammad Jumaa.

The Israeli military claimed that Nafeh and Awad were "terrorists". Nafeh was a commander of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.