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Israeli forces kill three Palestinians, injure over dozen in West Bank raid

Friday, 07 June 2024 7:32 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 07 June 2024 7:32 AM ]

Deceased young Palestinians (L-R): Taher Muhammad al-Saadi, 21, Issa Nafez Jallad, 17, and Uday Ayman Marei, 24 (Photo by WAFA news agency)

Israeli forces have killed at least three young Palestinians and wounded more than a dozen others during a raid in the northern flank of the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry and medics say.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing the director of Jenin’s government hospital as saying, reported that three Palestinians were killed and at least 15 others injured on Thursday evening, when Israeli troops stormed the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, a densely populated urban area.

Wissam Bakr identified the three victims as Ibrahim Taher Muhammad al-Saadi, 21; Issa Nafez Jallad, 17; and Uday Ayman Marei, 24.

Bakr added that the wounded have been transferred to several medical facilities, including Jenin’s al-Razi and Ibn Sina hospitals.

WAFA said a convoy of Israeli army vehicles, including bulldozers, entered the area backed by Apache attack helicopters.

The report said Israeli army tanks belonging to special forces destroyed stands belonging to local vendors, and shot bullets towards the main electrical transformer in the camp, which resulted in a power outage.

Hospitals were surrounded and emergency services were prevented from reaching the injured, it added. At least two people were detained as well.

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Israeli forces have killed at least 505 Palestinians in the West Bank since October.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its paramedics dealt with eight wounded people during the raid, including five who were shot with live bullets and two who suffered shrapnel wounds.

The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, said in a statement that its fighters were engaged in “violent clashes” near the Jenin refugee camp.

Since Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Strom into the occupied territories on October 7 and Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip in response, casualties have also seen a spike in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily Israeli raids into its villages and cities.

At least 530 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or extremist Jewish settlers since the war began. According to the UN, 2023 was the deadliest year yet for Palestinians in the West Bank since the United Nations began keeping such records in 2005.

At least 36,654 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past nearly eight months.

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