The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death toll after the recent Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian officials said that four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli army raid near the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, including a boy.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified three of those killed Thursday as Youssef Shreim, 29, Nidal Kazem, 28, and Omar Awadin, 16. The identity of the fourth was not immediately known.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted the ministry as saying that the raid – the latest since Israel intensified such operations in the West Bank last year – was carried out by secret Israeli forces that “stormed into the city center of Jenin”.
The Israeli army said, “Security forces are currently operating in the Jenin refugee camp.”
Jenin is among the areas in the northern West Bank where Israel has intensified its raids over the past year in an attempt to quell the growing armed Palestinian resistance.
Amateur video taken by people in Jenin shows a crowd of Palestinians surrounding a car suspected of carrying disguised Israeli soldiers. Another clip appeared to show Israeli military vehicles towing the car away.
Thursday’s killing brings the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the year to 83, as Israel intensified arrest operations in the occupied West Bank in response to a series of attacks last spring.
Palestinian attacks against Israelis killed 14 people in 2023.
Last week, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in a raid on Jenin, less than 48 hours after six more were killed in another raid on the city.
In January, Israeli forces killed 9 Palestinians, including an elderly woman, during a large-scale raid on the Jenin refugee camp, in one of the bloodiest days in the occupied West Bank since the intensification of Israeli raids at the beginning of last year.
More than 170 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids in 2022, many of them civilians.
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