Palestinian militants reported being involved in clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the area
The Palestinian Authority’s health ministry announced that one person was killed by Israeli army fire in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, in the early hours of the morning.
Palestinian militants reported being involved in clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the area.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that at least four people were wounded by bullets in clashes with Israeli forces, two of whom were said to be in serious condition. The clashes took place in the eastern sector of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, a traditional stronghold of the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.
The Nablus force of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said its members were “fighting occupation forces and groups of settlers who raided the area of Joseph’s tomb,” where clashes have repeatedly erupted between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army.
Israel’s armed forces did not immediately respond when Reuters asked them to comment on the report.
Violence in the West Bank has escalated over the past 15 months, with a series of Chahal operations by the Israeli army, settler raids on Palestinian villages and anti-Israeli attacks.
The Palestinians want to establish an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Israel captured the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem – which it has annexed and described as its “eternal capital” – in the Six Day War (1967).
US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014 and there is no prospect of their resumption.
Source :Skai
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