Monitoring Desk
WEST BANK, PALESTINE: Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians and wounded 11 others during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry.
Two of those wounded suffered serious injuries, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Israeli forces besieged a house and hit it with rockets, witnesses told AFP news agency.
Footage circulating on social media showed helicopters over a column of military vehicles entering the city. Israeli authorities said one of the Palestinian men they killed was behind last week’s shooting of two brothers from an illegal settlement near the Palestinian village of Huwara.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the gunman who last month killed two Israeli settlers in the West Bank had been “eliminated”.
Second raid
Israeli forces also carried out a second raid on Tuesday evening in another refugee camp south of Nablus, Al Jazeera reported.
The troops entered a building in the Askar refugee camp and arrested three men, including two sons of a 49-year-old man killed in Jenin.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, termed the use of rockets in Jenin on Tuesday an act of “all-out war”, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Abu Rudeineh accused the Israeli government of being “responsible for this dangerous escalation which threatens to inflame the situation and destroy all efforts aimed at restoring stability”.
