2024-08-28 06:14:09
A spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent announced on Wednesday August 28 to Agence France-Presse (AFP) that ten Palestinians were killed in the north of the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army claimed to be in control. “An act of terrorism” without providing further information.
Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Jenin, four others in a car bomb in a nearby village and four more in a refugee camp near the city of Toubas, Ahmed Jibril, spokesman for the Red Crescent. He added that he had recorded “15 injuries” so far.
“We took the two dead from Jenin to Jenin hospital”he explained. “Four Palestinians were killed in a car bomb south of Jenin and two Palestinians were killed in al-Faraa refugee camp and transferred to the Turkish Toubas hospital”he added. “Two other Palestinians, brothers aged 13 and 17, were killed in a house in al-Faraa camp and (the survivors) could not recover themselves at this time.”he continued.
Palestinian ambulance services often accuse the Israeli army of preventing them from accessing the dead and wounded during its attacks.
Simultaneous attacks
Israeli attacks on the Palestinian Authority are a daily occurrence in the West Bank. However, it is rare for them to perform simultaneously in several cities as is the case during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. In recent weeks, Israeli operations in the West Bank have focused on the north of the region, where armed groups fighting against Israel have been particularly active.
The Israeli army announced that it had killed five Palestinians on Monday evening in an airstrike on the Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem. He explained on Wednesday that this event is important “Jibril Jibril removed, involved in terrorist activities in Tulkarem and Qalqiliya, who was released in November as part of the agreement” of the exchange of hostages taken on October 7 to Gaza against Palestinian prisoners in prison by Israel.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, more than 650 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli army or settlers, according to an AFP count based on official Palestinian data, and at least more than 20 Israelis including soldiers in Palestine. attacks or during military operations in the Palestinian Authority, according to official Israeli data.
“Extra West”
Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian Islamist group affiliated with Hamas, mainly established in refugee camps in the north of the West Bank, opposed a “Open War of Veterans” Israel. “With this aggression that aims to transfer the weight of the conflict to the occupied West Bank, the party wants to impose a new position on the ground to consolidate the West Bank”he accused was released.
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For its part, Hamas, whose popularity has increased in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza as its rival, the Palestinian Authority, has fallen, regularly calls on the West Bank to “raise”.
He did so again on Tuesday evening, urging the three million Palestinians in the West Bank to respond to a new debate launched the day before by Itamar Ben Gvir, the far-right Israeli minister. who openly called for the reunification of the West Bank.
Mr. Ben Gvir has provoked the anger of many Arab capitals and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation by asking that the location on the Esplanade des mosques in Jerusalem, saying that he will find himself there to build a synagogue as well.
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