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| Paleo news agency: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank; Israel Times: IDF arrests 17 jihadis in WB, raids home of Tel Aviv killer | ||
| 2022-04-28 | ||
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli forces killed a Paleostinian man and maimed three others in West Bank festivities early Wednesday, the official Paleostinian news agency WAFA said, a day after the fatal shooting of another Paleostinian. The Israeli army told AFP it was "conducting counterterrorism activity" in the city of Jenin, but did not comment on any casualties. Israeli security forces have stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank, particularly around Jenin where there are active fighters from several gangs, after a series of attacks in Israel since late March. The man killed in the latest incident was identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Massad, from the village of Burqin in the northern West Bank. He was shot in the head, a hospital official told WAFA. Massad’s death follows that of another Paleostinian killed Tuesday when Israeli forces stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during what the army called a "counter-terrorism" operation that sparked The Paleostinian health ministry said 20-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat "succumbed to critical wounds sustained by live bullets to the head," during the shooting in Aqabat Jaber camp near Jericho. Clashes between Israeli forces and Paleostinians are common in the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967. But there has been a wave of bloodshed in the territory and in Israel as the Moslem holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Passover overlapped this month. Massad is among 26 Paleostinians and Israeli Arabs killed since late March, among them several assailants, according to an AFP tally. During the same period, 14 Israelis were killed in various attacks. Violent festivities have also rocked the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, sparking fears of another conflict after last year’s 11-day war between Israel and gangs in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip. Concerns of fresh al-Aqsa festivities are building, though, ahead of Friday prayers at the compound, with the end of Ramadan also approaching in early May. Following the al-Aqsa festivities, isolated rocket fire towards Israel from the Gaza Strip resumed, prompting Israeli reprisals on targets linked to Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,, the group which controls the coastal Paleostinian enclave. No injuries have been reported on either side as a result of the rocket fire or retaliatory air strikes. Paleostinian Moslems have been angered by an uptick in Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third-holiest site. It is also Judaism’s holiest place and known to Jews as the Temple Mount. In an apparent attempt to ease tensions, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told news hounds on Sunday that Israel was committed to the "status quo" at al-Aqsa, meaning an adherence to long-standing convention allowing Jews to visit the compound but not pray there.
A Palestinian was killed during a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, according to Palestinian Authority health officials and the Islamic Jihad terror group. Israeli troops raided Jenin and the nearby town of Qabatiya in the pre-dawn hours in an attempt to arrest Palestinian terror suspects. Soldiers also pinned a demolition order to the home of Ra’ad Hazem, the terrorist who killed three people when he opened fire in a busy Tel Aviv bar on April 7. The military said five Palestinians were detained in the Jenin area. Palestinian media identified one as Asim Abu al-Heija, the son of a senior official in the Hamas terror group. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the soldiers after they entered the city’s incendiary refugee camp, the army said. A local branch of the Islamic Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for the firefight in a statement circulated in Palestinian media. “During the operation in Jenin, Israel Defense Forces troops acted to quell a violent riot at the scene with dozens of Palestinians who opened fire, burned trash, and hurled explosive devices at troops, who responded with gunfire,” the army said in a statement. According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, an 18-year-old Palestinian was killed during the clashes. The official WAFA news outlet identified the deceased as Ahmad Massad, 21, a resident of the nearby town of Burqin. Another three Palestinians were injured by live fire during the gunfight with Israeli troops, although all were in stable condition, the PA Health Ministry said. The operation was the military’s first in Jenin in two weeks. Israeli forces conducted a spate of raids in mid-April in an attempt to crack down on a wave of Palestinian violence emanating from the northern West Bank city. There was no immediate word from Palestinian health officials on Massad’s death. But the terror group confirmed it and claimed the young man as a member. “With pride and regard we hail the heroic martyr, our son Ahmed Muhammad Fathi Massad,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement, adding that Massad had formerly served time in Israeli prison for security offenses.
The Israeli army said 12 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror activities were arrested during overnight raids across the West Bank, including two in Jenin and three in the nearby town of Qabatiya. The Jenin area has emerged as a major hotspot for terror activity in recent months. Two perpetrators of recent attacks — Hazem and Diaa Hamarsheh, whose shooting spree left five dead in Bnei Brak — hailed from Jenin and its environs. “We are not terrorists. We are defending our land and country and the path of our prophet,” Hazem’s father Fathi told local Palestinian media after the demolition order was posted on his Jenin home. The former PA security officer has repeatedly praised his son’s terror attack. The Shin Bet security service said Monday that it had foiled an attempt by the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad to enlist residents of the West Bank to commit attacks against Israeli targets. The agency said several Palestinians from the Jenin area — including Yasmin Shaaban, a 40-year-old mother of four — were detained for planning a bombing attack against Israeli farmers in the area. Related: Burqin: 2021-09-28 Large explosives cache belonging to Hamas cell said found in West Bank town Burqin: 2021-09-26 Israeli troops kill four Hamas members in West Bank raids: military Burqin: 2019-06-22 Palestinian Clan 'disowns' Son For Attending Bahrain Conference Related: Aqabat Jaber: 2022-01-05 Dozens of Palestinians injured as occupation storms Aqabat Jaber camp Aqabat Jaber: 2017-08-15 Soldier lightly hurt by rock throwers in West Bank raid Aqabat Jaber: 2016-09-19 Palestinian youth found with Molotov Cocktails and knife; more police in Jerusalem's Old City for High Holidays | ||
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