‘Natural reaction to Israeli crimes’: Two settlers killed in West Bank shooting

Two Israeli settlers have been killed in a shooting operation in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Information center, citing eyewitnesses, reported on Sunday that a Palestinian youth opened fire on a car in the center of the West Bank town of Hawara, south of Nablus, leaving two settlers dead.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident.

The Israeli military says it is pursuing the gunman who has left the scene.

Senior officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) recently met in the Jordanian resort city of Aqaba to discuss ways of lowering tensions in the occupied territories.

The so-called Israeli-Palestinian security summit was organized by the White House in Jordan after the Israeli military's deadly raid in Nablus.

The Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements have praised the shooting operation, saying it is a natural reaction to Israeli crimes against Palestinians—the most recent of which was the deadly raid in Nablus.

Islamic Jihad said this operation was carried out in line with the promise of revenge for the blood of the two Palestinian resistance fighters who were killed by Israeli forces in Nablus.

It went on to say that this operation sends a message to the security meeting in Aqaba that the resistance will confront the occupying regime and Israeli settlers as long as aggression against Palestinians continue.

Tensions have been rising across the occupied West Bank as Israeli forces launch raids on a daily basis under the pretext of detaining what the regime calls “wanted” Palestinians. The raids usually lead to deadly attacks against residents.

Over the past months, Israel has ramped up attacks on Palestinian towns and cities throughout the occupied territories. As a result of these attacks, dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives and many others have been arrested.

UPDATE: Death toll in Israeli army’s West Bank raid rises to 10, over 100 injured

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 wounded in an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

On Wednesday, bloody clashes broke out after Israeli forces stormed Nablus with dozens of armored vehicles and blocked off all entrances to the city. They then surrounded a home with two Palestinian fighters Hossam Isleem and Mohammad Abdulghan, both of whom were killed by Israeli fire.

Following the raid, at least 11 Palestinians, including the two resistance fighters, were killed. Another 102 people were also injured – 82 hit by live ammunition, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Palestinian resistance groups censured the attack and vowed retaliation.

The carnage brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in occupied territories since the start of 2023 to 61 people, including 13 children.

The deadly attack also came less than a month after Israeli forces raided the city of Jenin and its neighboring refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, killing ten Palestinians in one of the deadliest raids in years.

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