Israel kills 2 Palestinians in occupied West Bank as violence soars
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A Palestinian ambulance first responder speaks with Israeli soldiers blocking a road at a location where 2 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli army operation, Nablus, occupied West Bank, April 11, 2023. (AFP Photo)
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AP APR 12, 2023 1:02 PM
Two more Palestinians were killed Tuesday by the Israeli military during a raid in the occupied West Bank, adding to the deadly violence that has gripped the region in recent months. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two men killed in the West Bank village of Deir al Hatab as Saud Abdullah Saud and Mohammed Abu Dira, without providing their ages.
The Israeli military claimed the men shot at an Israeli outpost near the settlement of Elon Moreh, south of the Palestinian city of Nablus. Israeli soldiers on patrol opened fire, killing both Palestinians. Palestinian media reported that a third man was in the car and fled the area. Israeli security forces said they were searching for him and allegedly found a pair of M-16 rifles and a pistol at the scene.
The local armed group of the Balata refugee camp, a militant stronghold near Nablus, identified the two men as armed members. Saud had previously spent 15 years in Israeli prison, the group said. "We fought as soldiers and we promise we will always be soldiers," Saud said in a video after being freed from prison last spring.
Tuesday's deaths followed a week of unusually heightened violence in Israel and the West Bank, touched off by an Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, the compound home to the Al-Aqsa mosque. Last week, the Israeli military struck sites linked to the Palestinian group Hamas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip after they allegedly fired salvos of rockets at Israel. The mosque sits on a contested hilltop revered as the third-holiest site in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism. Read More…
