At least four Palestinians were killed and nearly 20 others wounded early Tuesday in raids by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, mainly in the city of Nablus from where a new group of local fighters is operating, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
“There are three dead and 19 wounded, three of them seriously, by Israeli fire in Nablus,” the ministry said in a terse statement about the operation that began early Tuesday in the city, according to witnesses.
Later in the evening, the ministry reported that another Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire, this time in Ramallah, the headquarters of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in the central West Bank.
a great operation
The Israeli army did not comment on this assessment, but confirmed that it had carried out a vast operation with police and intelligence against the “headquarters and a weapons manufacturing workshop” of the new group of Palestinian fighters called “The Pit of the lions.” in the old town of Nablus. During this operation, “several armed suspects were shot,” the army said.
In recent weeks, a group of young Palestinian fighters has begun carrying out anti-Israeli operations from Nablus, a major city in the northern occupied West Bank.
The new group, baptized in Arabic “Areen al-Oussoud”, the “well of the lion” in French, in homage to Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a young fighter nicknamed the “Lion of Nablus” and killed in early August by the forces Israelis, had claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an Israeli soldier two weeks ago in the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday, Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a statement that its “fighters were involved in violent clashes” with Israeli forces in Nablus and threatened Israel with retaliation “against these crimes” there.
Source: BFM TV
