Israeli forces they have killed in the last few hours eight Palestinians in raids and incidents in West Bankfive of them in the city of Jeninwhile they continue their intense raids in this territory, according to a balance communicated on Sunday by the Ministry of Health.
According to the Ministry of Health, five Palestinians “died as a result of the occupation’s (Israel) assault on Jenin,” and another died from gunshot wounds fired by Israeli forces in the village of Yatma, near Nablus, in the north. of the West Bank.
drone attack
In the operation in Jenin – a bastion of Palestinian militias – the troops used a drone to attack a house in the refugee camp that was “bombed with at least one missile”, causing one death and five injuries, according to the official news agency. Palestinian Wafa news.
A large contingent of Israeli troops stormed the city last night, in a new military operation which has been repeated almost daily or weekly this 2023 in Jeninhe higher tension core in West Bank territory in recent times.
Minor among the victims
On this occasion, the troops raided several houses in the countryside and surrounding areas in the midst of armed clashes with Palestinians, causing the death of four of them from gunfire, including a minor.
At the same time, in another Israeli incursion in the village of Yatma, a 30-year-old young man died this morning during clashes with troops after being wounded in the head by live ammunition. Last night, another 16-year-old Palestinian minor shot dead of the Israeli Army in the area of the town of Al Bireh, in the central West Bank.
Escalation of violence
Israel and the West Bank are experiencing their largest escalation of violence in two decades, and pre-existing tension has intensified since the October 7 outbreak of the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, leading Israeli forces to increase their raids in the West Bank.
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Some 238 Palestinians have died in West Bank territory since the war began less than two monthsand the arrested exceed 2,000among whom there are more than a thousand of them suspected of having ties to Hamas.
All of this occurs hours after Israel and Hamas carried out a second exchange of 13 Israeli hostages for 39 Palestinian prisoners, some of them released in the West Bank, as part of a mechanism that was also repeated on Friday, within the framework of the ceasefire. the temporary fire maintained for two days in the Strip.