At least six people have died in an Israeli bomb attack in the West Bank
At least six Palestinians were killed this Sunday in an Israeli bombing near the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, in which an Israeli police officer was killed by an explosive. “Six martyrs when the Israeli occupation bombed a civic meeting in Jenin,” reported the Health Ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PNA), which has controlled parts of this territory occupied by the Jewish state since 1967 and has maintained a regime of military occupation and colonization there.
The official Palestinian Wafa agency has also reported that there was an injury and that the deceased were Hazza Najeh Hassan Darwish (27), Rami (22), Ahmed (24) and Alaa (29), the brothers are, Rizkallah Nabil Suleiman (18). and Muhammad Yasser Musa. “The occupation army troops entered the city of Jenin last night and there were clashes with youths in several areas,” Wafa said.
Israeli police, for their part, have confirmed the death of a sergeant in their border force, Shai Garmai, when an explosive exploded as a police vehicle drove past a refugee camp near Jenin.
Israeli media claim three other police officers were injured, one seriously, and that the explosives were planted on a street.
The West Bank is experiencing the greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-2005) and in 2023, approximately 520 Palestinians were killed in violent incidents related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Some of them were militia members or attackers who died in armed clashes with Israeli troops, but also civilians, including more than 112 minors.
In turn, around 333 Palestinians have died in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began on October 7, most of them by Israeli army gunfire, but another 10 were killed by Israeli settlers.
So far this year, 12 Palestinians have died in Israeli army actions in the West Bank, where, according to Palestinian sources, there have been around 5,000 arrests since the start of the war in Gaza.
Israeli forces are continuing their daily arrest operations and have arrested more than 2,550 Palestinians since October 7, according to the latest army data, about 1,300 of them for alleged ties to the Islamist group Hamas. (Efe)