At least two Palestinians link werekilled link on Thursday during an Israeliraid in the occupied West Bank link,Palestinian authorities said, after a series of deadly attacks in theJewish state.
The Palestinian health ministry said a 17-year-old and a 23-year-old, bothof them males, were killed link “by theIsraeli occupation forces during its incursion into Jenin”, and that 15other people were wounded.
The Israeli military said its troops came under fire from Palestinianslink as they attempted “to apprehendterrorist suspects” in Jenin, adding that one of its soldiers had beenwounded during the operation.
The clashes came amid heightened tensions in the run-up to the Muslimfasting month of Ramadan, following attacks in Israel in which 11 Israeliswere killed link in the past two weeks.
Early on Thursday, far-right Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir paid aprovocative visit to the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem.
Read Top Stories
“All night Hamas threatened me and said that I was in the line of fire andtold me not to come here. I say to the Hamas spokesman shut up,” he said,referring to the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip.
Israel captured the West Bank link fromJordan in the Six-Day War of 1967.
It has since built a string of settlements across the territory that areconsidered illegal under international law but are home to some 475,000Israelis. – APP/AFP
