In occupied West Bank, four Palestinians killed in two days in clashes with Israeli army

Israeli security forces multiply operations after a series of attacks, since the end of March, perpetrated in Israel and the West Bank by Israeli Palestinians and Arabs.

Le Monde

A young Palestinian was shot dead on Thursday, June 2, during clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “A 17-year-old Palestinian who had been injured by a bullet from the Israeli army in the village of Al-Madia, in the Ramallah sector, died of his injuries,” said the ministry in a statement .

The Israeli army said, on the other hand, on Twitter to have drawn in the direction of suspects having thrown incendiary bottles on soldiers in the sector close to the separation barrier, near the village of Al-Madia. Three other Palestinians have been killed in the past two days in snacks in occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army continues its almost daily operations after a series of attacks in Israel.

Wednesday morning, a Palestinian was killed near the Palestinian refugee camp in Al-Aroub, in the south of the West Bank, because she approached a soldier, according to the Israeli army, army of army ‘a knife. Two other people were killed between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning during the Israeli army operations in this territory, occupied since 1967 by the Hebrew State. 2> two Palestinians killed between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning
people meet in front of the family home destroyed by the author of an attack which had left five dead in Bnei Brak (Israel), June 2, 2022 , in Yabad. People come together in front of the author destroyed the author of an attack that had killed five in Bnei Brak (Israel), June 2, 2022, in Yabad. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP

in Yabad, a neighboring village of Jénine (north of the West Bank), the Israeli army destroyed, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the family house of the author of the attack which had killed five people in the city of Bnei Brak, in Israel, on March 29. During this operation, “violent riots broke out” and the soldiers, targeted by Molotov cocktails and shots, responded and pulled real bullets, the Israeli army said. Six Palestinians were injured during these clashes and one of them succumbed to his injuries to the hospital, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Then, Thursday morning, a 29 -year -old Palestinian was killed by Israeli security forces in a refugee camp near Bethlehem (south of the West Bank), again, the ministry announced in a statement. According to the Israeli army, soldiers who operated in the camp to arrest a Palestinian “suspected of terrorist activities” were the target of “explosive devices and stone blocks”. They replied by pulling real bullets.

On Thursday, the funeral of victims of Bethlehem and Yabad brought together hundreds of people, and combatants wrapped the bodies of Palestinian armed factions, according to journalists from the France-Presse ( AFP) on site.

nineteen dead in Israel since the end of March

The spokesperson for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abou Rudeineh, accused Israel of being behind the “recent escalation” of tensions and called on the United States to put pressure on the Israelians to put End of these operations in occupied West Bank, “which are likely to train the whole region in violence”.

Nineteen people, mostly civilians, were killed in attacks in Israel and the West Bank perpetrated by Israeli Palestinians and Arabs since the end of March. Israeli security forces have reacted by operations in Israel and occupied West Bank.

Thirty-eight Palestinians and three Israeli Arab attackers were killed there, partly members of armed groups, but also civilians, including a journalist covering an operation in Jénine. An Israeli policeman was also killed in a West Bank.

/Media reports.