(Nablus) Two Palestinians were killed and 19 were injured in Nablus during new night operations carried out in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli army, which said it wanted to apprehend people wanted for involvement in attacks.
Posted at 8:48 a.m.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Mouhamad Azizi (25) was shot in the chest and AbdulRahman Suleiman Sobh (28) was shot in the head. The Palestinian Red Crescent also reported 19 wounded, including 10 by live ammunition.
The Israeli army said it carried out overnight “counterterrorism operations” in the West Bank overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
She reported “exchanges of fire between armed suspects and troops” during an operation in Nablus, in the north of the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
“Explosive devices and stones were thrown in the direction of the” Israeli “soldiers in Nablus” by rioters who also opened fire in the direction of the troops”, added the army, saying that it responded with “anti-riot means and live ammunition”.
PHOTO JAAFAR ASHTIYEH, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A Red Crescent ambulance evacuates an injured person in Nablus.
“A total of four individuals suspected of terrorist activities were arrested overnight” during Israeli operations in the West Bank, the army said in its statement.
“Efficient and successful”
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said during his cabinet meeting on Sunday that “the army, the Shin Bet [service de sécurité intérieure] and the Yamam [commando de la police] had raided the hideouts of wanted persons in Nablus that night. »
“These are terrorists who have recently carried out attacks with firearms,” he said.
“We are not going to sit and wait for them to attack Israeli citizens,” he added, praising an “efficient and successful” operation by the security forces.
The spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abou Roudeina, denounced a “new […] Israeli crime that will not undermine the determination and the will of our people”, in remarks reproduced by the official agency Wafa.
“The region will remain in a cycle of violence until the end of the occupation is achieved [israélienne des territoires palestiniens, NDLR] and a just peace,” he added.
Since the end of March, Israeli security forces have been carrying out almost daily operations in the West Bank following a series of attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs in Israel and the West Bank in which 19 people, mostly civilians, have lost his life.
During these operations by the Israeli army, at least 52 Palestinians and three Arab Israeli attackers were killed, partly members of armed groups but also civilians, including the star journalist of the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh , which covered an operation in Jenin.