March 7 (UPI) — Six Palestinians are lifeless after an Israeli army raid of a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin within the West Bank on Tuesday.

One of the Palestinians killed is believed to be accountable for killing an Israeli soldier and his youthful brother in Huwara in late February, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reported by BBC.

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According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 5 of the lifeless have been males of their 20s, and the sixth was 49-year-old Abdel Fattah Kharousha.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price didn’t outwardly condemn the raid however mentioned the United States is “deeply concerned” by the growing violence within the West Bank, The Times of Israel experiences.

“Israel has the legitimate right to defend its people and its territory against all forms of aggression, including those from terrorist groups,” Price mentioned throughout a press briefing Tuesday. “We have seen far too many vivid demonstrations of the terrorist threat that Israel faces in recent days.”

The Rambam Medical Center in Haifa reported that three Israeli officers have been injured throughout the raid with what it described as “slight” to “moderate” accidents, The Times of Israel mentioned.

Axios experiences that the Israeli troopers surrounded a house which they believed sheltered a Hamas member accountable for the Huwara killings. The troopers ordered for anti-tank missiles to be fired on the house after the individuals inside refused to give up.