Israeli forces have killed eight Palestinians in attacks and incidents in the occupied West Bank in recent hours, five of them in the city of Jenin, as they continue their intense attacks on the territory, Palestinian sources reported.
According to the Ministry of Health, five Palestinians “died after the attack on Jenin by the occupation (Israel)”, and another died from bullets fired by Israeli forces in the village of Yatma, near Nablus, in the north of the West. . Bank. The France-Presse news agency reports that there are at least 15 injured.
In the operation in Jenin, a stronghold of the Palestinian militias, troops used a ‘drone’ (unmanned flying device) to attack a house in the refugee camp that was “bombed with at least one missile”, killing one person and injuring one. to five, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
A large contingent of Israeli troops invaded the city on Saturday night, in a new military operation that is repeated almost daily this year in Jenin, the most tense area of the West Bank in recent times.
On this occasion, Israeli troops invaded several houses in the rural area and surrounding areas, in the midst of armed clashes with the Palestinians, which resulted in the shooting death of four Palestinians, including a minor.
In another Israeli raid on the village of Yatma, a 30-year-old man died this Sunday morning during clashes with Israeli troops, after being hit in the head with live ammunition.
On Saturday night, another Palestinian youth, aged 16, was shot dead by the Israeli army in the area of al-Bireh village in the central West Bank.
Israel and the West Bank are experiencing the largest escalation of violence in the last two decades and pre-existing tensions have intensified since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, which led Israeli forces to increase attacks in the West Bank.
Some 238 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the war began less than two months ago, and more than 2,000 have been detained, including more than a thousand suspected of having links to Hamas.
The incidents come after Israel and Hamas carried out a second exchange of 13 Israeli hostages for 39 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom were freed in the West Bank, as part of a mechanism that was repeated on Friday as part of a ceasefire. temporary fire that has taken place. which has been in force for two days in the Gaza Strip and will last at least until Tuesday.
Source: TSF
