Israeli troops killed three Palestinian men during an overnight operation at a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said on Tuesday.
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Since the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip broke out on October 7, violence and clashes have increased in the West Bank.
The three men were killed “by Israeli occupation bullets” during clashes in the Faraa refugee camp near Tubas in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a question about the issue.
Videos posted on social media show Israeli military vehicles entering Faraa in the middle of the night.
“Dozens of young men and gunmen from the camp clashed with the forces before calling in reinforcements, including bulldozers that damaged the camp’s roads and water and sewage systems,” he said. said Assem Mansour, chairman of the Faraa Refugee Camp People's Committee.
One of the three people killed by Israeli forces was a member of an armed group fighting the Israeli occupation, he added, and the other two were civilians “who were at home and were killed by snipers stationed in the camp.”
The Israeli army regularly carries out raids and arrests in the West Bank, which increased after the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007.
Since then, more than 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
According to Israeli authorities, Palestinians have also carried out numerous attacks on Israeli troops and civilians in Israel and the West Bank, killing at least 15 people.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War – including East Jerusalem, which it also annexed. The Palestinians claim this area, as well as the war-torn Gaza Strip, as part of a future independent state.