2023-11-02 16:49:29
Three Palestinians and an Israeli were killed this Thursday, November 2, in violence in several areas of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Israeli emergency services.
The West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, has been plagued by an intensification of violence since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the bloody attack on October 7 by the Islamist movement on the Israeli soil.
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In El-Bireh, Ramallah’s twin city, two Palestinians aged 14 and 24 were killed and two others injured when the Israeli army opened fire during clashes that broke out during an incursion it was carrying out to carry out arrests, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said.
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In Qalqilya, further north, a 19-year-old Palestinian was killed by fire from Israeli soldiers, and two others were injured, during an army incursion, according to this source. No comment on the incursions could immediately be obtained from the army.
Retaliation in a Palestinian village
In addition, an Israeli was killed near the settlement of Einav, in the northern West Bank, after his car came under Palestinian fire, according to the Israeli army and Magen David Adom, the Israeli emergency service. “The army has set up roadblocks in the area and is chasing the terrorists”the army said in a statement.
He is reservist Elhanan Klein, 29, a resident of the Einav settlement who was returning home, according to advice from Shomron, the name given by Israel to the north of the West Bank.
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After the Israeli’s death, dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Sharaf, ten kilometers northwest of the Einav settlement, where they burned businesses and fields and damaged cars, according to witnesses on site.
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For several months, the West Bank has been the scene of numerous operations by the Israeli army, abuses by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population and Palestinian attacks against settlements and Israeli forces.
130 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since October 7
Since October 7, nearly 130 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by fire from Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. And since then, around 1,900 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank by Israeli security services, according to the Prisoners’ Club, an association that defends the rights of detainees.
In a press release at the end of October, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory, based in Geneva, said it had “documented serious abuse and torture” against Palestinian civilians and detainees in the hands of the Israeli army in the West Bank.
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The West Bank caught up in the conflict between Israel and Gaza
The NGO reported images showing Palestinian civilians in Yatta, in the southern West Bank, “dragged and attacked by Israeli soldiers”. “The Palestinian civilians in the footage were stripped naked, had their hands and feet tied, and appeared to have been left in the open for hours”affirmed the Observatory.
Washington denounced on Wednesday the violence committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, calling it“incredibly destabilizing”and urged Israel to stem them.
More than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel, most of them during the October 7 attack by Hamas, according to Israeli authorities.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, which controls the Gaza Strip, Israeli bombings launched in retaliation in this Palestinian territory have killed more than 9,000 people, the vast majority civilians.
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