2023-10-29 22:31:21
Five Palestinians were killed Sunday morning by Israeli army fire during several military incursions into the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry said.
The five Palestinians, aged 29 to 35, were killed during clashes with the Israeli army. Two of them died in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
The other incidents took place in Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem and in Tamoun north of the city of Jenin.
Israel defends ‘retaliatory’ attacks
The Israeli army claimed that its soldiers “opened fire in response” in Beit Rima after being thrown Molotov cocktails during an “anti-terrorist operation” in the locality.
In Askar, “exchanges of fire” took place between Palestinian armed men and an Israeli force that entered the camp “to demolish the house” of an activist, according to the same source.
She also reported armed clashes with Palestinian activists during an operation aimed at arresting wanted Palestinians in the Jenin region.
Dozens of Palestinians dead in the West Bank
More than 110 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during Israeli army operations since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel on October 7, triggered by the unprecedented deadly attack by the Palestinian movement in Israel.
The situation in the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by Israel, was already tense before this war with frequent raids by the Israeli army, an increase in abuses by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian population and Palestinian attacks against the settlements and the forces of Israeli security.
On Saturday, a 40-year-old Palestinian who was picking olives was killed by an Israeli settler in a village near a settlement in the Nablus region, according to the Health Ministry and the local mayor.
“France strongly condemns the settler attacks which led to the death of several Palestinian civilians in recent days in Qusra and el-Sawiya, as well as the forced departure of several communities,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday. in a press release. This violence “is unacceptable and must stop,” he continues.
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