Conflict in the Middle East | At least three more Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank

2023-05-04 11:23:18

Another violent awakening in the occupied west bank. Three Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army this Thursday in the city of Nablus. According to Israeli troops, the dead are responsible for the deadly attack a few weeks ago that killed three British-Israeli colonists, a mother and her two daughters aged 15 and 20. Early in the morning, the Jewish forces entered an apartment in the city of Nablus, one of the centers of the Palestinian resistance, and killed Hasan Katnani, Maed Mitsri, both suspected members of Hamas, and ibrahim huraa high-ranking operative who had helped the other suspects.

The citizens of Nablus are used to waking up with the sound of bullets and fear in their bodies. Israel has been leading a campaign of night arrests and early morning raids in an operation supposedly to dismantle new Palestinian militant networks and thwart future attacks. As a consequence, more than 250 Palestinians have killed by Israeli fire since the raids began. Although Israel claims that the majority are militants, many of them are civilians and even minors. at the same time almost 50 personas they have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israelis during this time.

Tear gas inhalation

In the Old City of Nablus, the Palestinian Red Crescent has denounced that four people have been transferred to the hospital and others at least 150 have suffered tear gas inhalation, including school children, during the Israeli raid. Hamas has claimed the dead as members of its militia, though the Palestinian Ministry of Health It has been slow to identify the bodies. “The faces of two of the martyrs have been completely deformed due to the intense fire they received, which makes their identification difficult,” the ministry said. Political factions in Nablus, where many of the new armed groups created in the last year are concentrated, have announced a general strike in response to the attack.

Furthermore, this other deadly raid comes at a time with the quite high tensions between Israel and the Palestinians. The death of the Palestinian prisoner Jader Adnan on hunger strike on Monday prompted a response in the form of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Islamic Jihad. In turn, Israel responded with bombing that took the life of a Gazan man. The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has motivated a large part of the Palestinian youth to join armed groups and exercise resistance with their own bodies. With nothing to lose, they head into Israel or into the illegal settlements in the West Bank to kill Israelis and somehow avenge the military occupation that has suffocated them for more than half a century.