Four other Israelis were injured in the attack. The following day, Hamas militants killed four Israelis at a restaurant in the West Bank settlement of Eli in response to Monday’s raid. Eight Israeli troops were also injured in the clash. Israeli forces killed six Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, and injured more than 90 others. Under fire, Israel then deployed Apache combat helicopters to open fire and extricate troops, an extremely rare move. The raid quickly spiraled into one of the most intense rounds of fighting in years: Reports indicate Palestinian militants set off a roadside bomb to push back Israeli forces.
Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf during her visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, “and we will not remain silent amid the Israeli escalation.”įighting first erupted on Monday when an Israeli raid aimed at arresting two suspected Palestinian militants turned deadly in the West Bank city of Jenin, which has long been a central flash point of tensions.
“The current situation is unprecedented,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told U.S. This week alone, at least 10 Palestinians and four Israelis were killed-bringing the total number of people killed this year to at least 155 Palestinians and 23 Israelis. This included two Israeli settler attacks on West Bank villages on Thursday that injured at least six Palestinians and set fire to a Palestinian school.Īttacks and operations on all sides are becoming bigger, more militarized, and deadlier, with the type of weaponry being deployed now not seen since the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. The Israeli-occupied West Bank has been rocked by a disturbing escalation in violence by Israeli forces, settlers, and Palestinian militants in the past week that has many worried the conflict is moving into a new phase.
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