Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Gunman in West Bank Raid

JENIN, West Financial institution (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman throughout a raid that set off clashes within the flashpoint city of Jenin within the occupied West Financial institution, medical officers and militant teams mentioned.

The Palestinian well being ministry mentioned one in every of its workers, a girl, was additionally significantly injured.

The useless 32-year-old was a senior operative with Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah motion, in response to relations.

Israel’s navy mentioned troopers got here underneath hearth, and shot again, throughout a mission to arrest suspected members of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad faction. A gun and a dozen bombs have been additionally captured within the operation, throughout which a soldier was flippantly wounded, the navy assertion mentioned.

Israeli forces blew up a home belonging to the useless man’s household and one other bakery, in response to witnesses.

Violence within the West Financial institution has worsened over the previous 15 months with stepped-up Israeli raids, Palestinian avenue assaults and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.

Israel captured the West Financial institution, which Palestinians hope will type the core of a future impartial state, in a 1967 conflict. It’s amongst territories the place the Palestinians search to determine a state.

Israel has since settled the territory, whereas the Palestinians are cut up between a Western-backed administration and armed Hamas Islamists who reject coexistence with Israel.

(Reporting by Nidal Almughrabi and Raneen Sawafta; Enhancing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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