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The Palestinian Health Ministry stated on Sunday that eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the course of a single 24-hour period.
During a large-scale armored vehicle assault into Jenin, which was the site of the worst Israeli operation in the West Bank in nearly 20 years, the ministry reported that five individuals were killed by gunfire from the Israeli army.
An Israeli drone was reportedly seen carrying out an airstrike on the refugee camp in Jenin, while witnesses told AFP that fifteen people were injured.
Additional witnesses reported on Saturday that the Israeli army had encircled the Ibn Sina clinic and the public hospital in Jenin and that troops were checking ambulances.
They also said that there was a lot of automatic weapon fighting.
In the north of the area, in the Jenin refugee camp, a hub for Palestinian armed groups, the Israeli army claimed to have engaged in “counterterrorism activities” throughout the night.
It announced that it had taken the alleged attacker of an August attack that murdered two Israelis into custody. The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that a 25-year-old physician was assassinated on Saturday outside his residence in Qabatiya, which is close to Jenin.
Additionally, it stated that two Palestinians were slain during an Israeli army operation on a village south of Nablus and in El-Bireh, which is close to the city of Ramallah.
Since Hamas’ cross-border raid on Israel on October 7, when militants from the Gaza Strip killed 1,200 people, the majority of them were civilians, the West Bank has seen an increase in violence, according to Israeli authorities.
Since then, Israel has retaliated by bombing and launching a land war in Gaza, killing, according to the Hamas administration, up to 15,000 people, the majority of whom were civilians.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that within the same period, Israeli settlers and soldiers had killed over 230 Palestinians in the West Bank.
Source- AFP
