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Seven Palestinians died this morning in an Israeli attack on the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and an eighth died from army fire near Hebron, in the south of West Bankwhich is experiencing its most violent year in 2023 since the Second Intifada, with more than 400 deaths in violent circumstances with Israel.
The eight deaths were confirmed this Tuesday by the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which governs parts of the occupied West Bank.
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Seven people died in Tulkarem during clashes between Israeli forces who opened fire and attacked from the air a group of “armed attackers” and “a terrorist cell” that had fired at them, according to an Israeli Army spokesman.
The operation left at least a dozen injured, according to Health.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that an armored Israeli military bulldozer entered the Tulkarem refugee camp and “destroyed its infrastructure, while (Israeli) occupation forces broke into several houses, climbed onto their roofs and fired bullets ”. moved.”
“The occupation forces besieged the Tulkarem camp, deploying mobile and foot patrols at all its entrances, as well as in the city neighborhoods leading to the camp,” Wafa said of the second Israeli incursion.
This is the second Israeli attack on Tulkarem in a week, following one in which four Palestinians were killed in an attack to arrest suspected Hamas members and another in the first weeks of the war in which 13 Palestinians were killed, several of them by air. attack using a drone.
These attacks, which have occurred almost daily since last year, have intensified further since the war in Gaza against Islamist militias led by Hamas began on October 7.
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Since then, 195 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,700 injured in the West Bank in violent incidents with Israeli security forces or Jewish settlers in the area.
The last deceased was a 20-year-old man who, according to Wafa, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the town of Beit Ainun, near the city of Hebron.
The agency indicated that his body was detained by Israeli troops and explained that the young man was accused of an attempted knife attack, something that the Israeli Army did not confirm.
Israel has detained more than 1,560 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza, 940 of them allegedly linked to Hamas.
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On November 9, the West Bank experienced the deadliest day since 2002, the height of the Second Intifada, with 18 dead across the territory, 14 of them in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian militias and the main focus of tension in the last year. whose refugee camps were attacked with bulldozers in a similar way to today’s attack in Tulkarem.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its biggest spiral of violence in two decades and, in 2023, 403 Palestinians have died, most of them militiamen in armed clashes with Israeli troops and aggressors, but also civilians, including 85 minors.
At the same time, the area has seen the proliferation of new Palestinian armed groups, which carry out more and more attacks and leave 36 dead on the Israeli side, most of them settlers, five of them minors, and 6 in uniform.
Source: Elcomercio
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