The call came in the middle of the night, Mohammed Shula said. His daughter-in-law, eight months pregnant with her first child, was whispering. There was panic in her voice. “Help, please,” Shula recalled her saying.

Two killed by Israel in Nur Shams camp, near Tulkarem, as military intensifes West Bank attacks. The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing two women – one of which was eight months pregnant, during a raid in the Palestinian territory’s Nur Shams refugee camp.

Israeli forces shot a young woman who was 8 months pregnant then blocked medics from attempting to save her unborn child in the West Bank.

Husband seriously injured as Israeli forces opened fire on family in Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem - Anadolu Ajansı

The fatal shooting of 23-year-old Sondos Shalabi, eight months pregnant with her first child, comes as Israel escalates violence against civilians in the occupied territory.