Two Palestinians die, one of them a doctor, due to Israel’s military incursion

Two Palestinians died this Friday, including a doctor, during an incursion by the Israeli Army in Jenin, a town in northern West Bank occupied where the military raids have been focused for being a bastion of the Palestinian resistance, official sources reported.

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The doctor “Abdullah Abu al Teen, 43 years old and father of three children, died this morning while fulfilling his humanitarian duty, helping the wounded,” said the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister, Muhamad Shtayeh, who considered this incident “a dangerous fact that demands an urgent intervention of the international humanitarian and human rights organizations”.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health assured that the doctor was fatally wounded with a bullet in the head “in front of Jenin Government Hospital.”

However, the Israeli Army assured Efe that Abu al-Teen was armed and with his face hooded when he was shot.

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The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed branch of Fatah, assured that the doctor belonged to their ranks and spread a poster in which he is seen carrying long weapons.

On the other hand, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry reported the death of Matin Dababa, 20 years old and a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, also by Israeli fire.

According to witnesses who were at the scene, he is a member of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.

This Israeli raid also left five people injured, including two paramedics, the Palestinian government confirmed.

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A video released by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, shows three Red Crescent paramedics getting out of their ambulance when they are caught in a hail of gunfire.

“The presence of uninvolved civilians in combat zones poses a danger to life,” The Israeli Army said in a statement, in which it assures that during its incursion into Jenin “several armed suspects fired live fire at the security forces, who responded with live fire.”

Three people were arrested in this operation, including Dia Muhamad Yusef Salama, an alleged fighter for the Islamist organization Hamas.

This Palestinian “24 years old and resident of Jenin was arrested when he was carrying an M-16 rifle in his possession,” reported the Israeli forces, who hold him responsible “for perpetrating recent attacks against the security forces and planning other attacks.”

The Israeli army also carried out raids in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Nablus, where it claims to have detained two suspects of having fired live ammunition at its soldiers.

The violence has escalated in West Bank occupied, especially in the area of ​​Jenin and Nablus, as a result of a greater number of raids by the Israeli Army for six months, in response to a wave of armed attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.

These events have claimed the lives of 118 Palestinians -including civilians and children- and 22 Israelis -15 of them civilians- so far in 2022, the deadliest year in the area since 2015 when the so-called “Intifada of the Israelites” broke out. Knives”.

The rise in violence in West Bank It has also spread to occupied East Jerusalem, which on Wednesday experienced one of the most violent days of the last year with riots and clashes, as a result of an armed attack on Saturday by a Palestinian, which resulted in the death of a soldier. Israeli in the Shuafat refugee camp.

Source: Elcomercio

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