Aged 29 to 35, these five men were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in different localities. In one of them, the Israeli army claimed that its soldiers “opened fire in response”.
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Five Palestinians were killed on Sunday, October 29, by Israeli army fire during several military incursions into the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health announced. Aged 29 to 35, they died during clashes with the Israeli army.
Two of them lost their lives in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus. The other incidents took place in Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, in the Dheisheh refugee camp, in Bethlehem and in Tamoun, north of the city of Jenin. The Israeli army claimed that its soldiers “opened fire in response” in Beit Rima after being thrown Molotov cocktails during a “anti-terrorist operation” in the locality.
More than 110 Palestinians killed
In Askar, “exchanges of fire” took place between Palestinian armed men and an Israeli force that entered the camp “to tear down the house” of an activist, according to the IDF. She also reported armed clashes with Palestinian activists during an operation aimed at arresting wanted Palestinians in the Jenin region.
According to the Palestinian Authority, more than 110 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank during Israeli army operations since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, sparked by the movement’s unprecedented deadly attack. Palestinian. The situation in the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by Israel, was already tense before this war with frequent IDF raids.
On Saturday, a 40-year-old Palestinian who was picking olives was killed by an Israeli settler in a village near a settlement in the Nablus region, according to the Health Ministry and the local mayor.