Four Palestinians have been killed in the past two days in incidents in the occupied West Bank, where almost daily operations by the Israeli army continue after a series of attacks on Israel.
Three of them were killed between Wednesday night and Thursday night during Israeli army operations in this territory, which has been occupied since 1967 by the Jewish state.
And on Wednesday morning, a fourth person was shot, a Palestinian woman said by the Israeli army approached a soldier carrying a knife, near the Palestinian refugee camp of Al Aroub not far from Hebron in the south of the West Bank.
In recent weeks, after a series of attacks on Israel, some of which were carried out by Palestinians, the Israeli army has stepped up operations in the West Bank.
Odeh Mohammed Odeh, 17, who was wounded by Israeli army bullets in the village of Al-Madia, in the Ramallah area, died of his wounds on Thursday night, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army claimed on Twitter that it fired at suspects who threw flaming bottles at soldiers in the area near the separation barrier near the village of Al-Madia.
Earlier today, 29-year-old Palestinian Ayman Muhaisen was killed by Israeli security forces at a refugee camp near Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
According to the Israeli army, soldiers operated in the camp to arrest a Palestinian suspected of terrorist activities is the target of the jetsexplosive devices and stone blocks. They responded by firing live ammunition.
the house was destroyed
On the night of Wednesday through Thursday, the Israeli army destroyed in Yabad, a village near Jenin, north of the West Bank, the home of the family of Diaa Hamarsha, the author of the attack that killed five in the city. of Bnei Brak, Israel, on March 29.
During this operation, violent unrest broke out and soldiers, targeted by Molotov cocktails and gunfire, responded and fired live ammunition, the army said.
Six Palestinians were injured in the clashes and one of them, Bilal Awad Kabha, died of his injuries in hospital, the Palestinian health ministry said.
On Wednesday, the funerals of Bilal Awad Kabha and Ayman Muhaisen were attended by hundreds of people in Yabad and near Bethlehem, including fighters who wrapped the bodies in banners of Palestinian armed factions, according to journalists fromAFP on the spot.
The Israeli army also said it arrested Diaa Hamarsha’s father during the Yabad operation and conducted other operations in several areas of the West Bank overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, including in Huwara, near Nablus and in Qalqiliya. .
Exacerbation of violence
Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh accused Israel of being behind the recent increase tensions and called on the United States to force the Israelis to end these operations which threatened to pull the entire region into violence.
Nineteen people, mostly civilians, have been killed in attacks in Israel and the West Bank carried out by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs since late March.
Israeli security forces responded to operations in Israel and the occupied West Bank. Thirty-nine Palestinian and three Israeli Arab attackers were killed there, partly members of armed groups, but also civilians, including a journalist covering an operation in Jenin.
An Israeli policeman was also killed in an operation in the West Bank.
Source: Radio-Canada
