The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death on Wednesday of a 21-year-old Palestinian boy in the village of Deir al-Hatab, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. He “died of a bullet wound to the head” in a shooting by the Israeli army, the same source claims, and two other people were injured in the shoulder in this northern sector of the West Bank in the grip of great tension. these last months. The Israeli army, for its part, confirmed to AFP that a military operation was indeed underway in the village of Deir al-Hatab.
It has stepped up operations in the West Bank in the wake of a wave of anti-Israeli attacks that have left 20 dead since mid-March.
Two Israelis killed on Sunday
These operations, punctuated by clashes with the population and concentrated in the areas of Jenin and Nablus, also left dozens dead on the Palestinian side, including members of armed groups.
On Sunday, two gun attacks left two lightly injured near Nablus, an Israeli motorist and soldier.
This resurgence of violence in the West Bank comes as national elections will be held on November 1 in Israel, against a backdrop of internal tensions in the Palestinian Territories, where many young people accuse the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas of not opposing the operations Israeli forces.
The West Bank is a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.