Four Palestinians, including an attacker and a combatant, were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Thursday amid escalating violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, AFP reported.
In the afternoon, the Israeli military said it had carried out a raid in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
“There are two martyrs shot dead by the occupation forces and four people wounded,” the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The two dead are 28-year-old Farouk Salameh, commander of Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, and teenager Mohamed Samer Khaluf.
Farouk Salameh was the target of the raid in Jenin, the army said in a statement, adding that he was armed and had been “neutralised”. The army blames him for several recent shootings of Israeli soldiers.
Earlier in the day, in the Old City of Jerusalem, located in the eastern part occupied by Israel since 1967, 20-year-old Palestinian Amer Bader was shot dead by Israeli forces after wounding three policemen in an attack.
According to Israeli police, the man “took out a knife and hit the officer.” In total, “as a result of the attack, three policemen were injured.”
Shaare Zedek Hospital reported that it treated two wounded people, whose condition is stable. “One suffered a stab wound to the torso and the other a bullet wound to the leg.”
Before dawn, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian during clashes in Beit Duk, a village north of Jerusalem in the West Bank.
According to eyewitnesses and the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 42-year-old Daoud Mahmoud Khalil Rayan was wounded in the heart during a march in honor of a Palestinian killed the day before after an anti-Israeli attack.
The rocket was launched in the direction of Israel
And on Thursday evening, a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip was intercepted over the territory of Israel, the first since August, the Israeli army said in a statement.
The violence followed Israel’s parliamentary election on Tuesday, which saw Benjamin Netanyahu win thanks to an alliance with religious and far-right parties.
Source: Hot News RO
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