Three Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours in incidents in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army continues its almost daily operations after a series of attacks in Israel.
Two of them were killed between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning during Israeli army operations in the West Bank, a territory occupied since 1967 by the Jewish state.
And on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian woman who the Israeli army said approached a soldier with a knife near the Al Aroub Palestinian refugee camp near Hebron in the southern West Bank, was shot dead.
In recent weeks, after a series of attacks in Israel, some of which were perpetrated by Palestinians, the Israeli army has stepped up operations in this territory.
Several operations
On Thursday morning, a 29-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli security forces in a refugee camp near Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
According to the Israeli army, soldiers who were operating in the camp to arrest a Palestinian “suspected of terrorist activities” were the target of throwing “explosive devices and blocks of stones”. They responded by firing live ammunition.
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the Israeli army destroyed in Yabad, a village neighboring Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the house of the author of the attack which killed five people in the city of Bnei Brak, in Israel on March 29.
During this operation, “violent riots broke out” and the soldiers, targeted by Molotov cocktails and gunfire, responded and fired live ammunition, according to the army.
Six Palestinians were injured in the clashes and one died of his wounds in hospital, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Israeli army also said it arrested the “terrorist’s father” during the operation.
She added that she carried out operations in several other areas of the West Bank overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, notably in several areas of tension such as Huwara, near Nablus and Qalqiliya.
Nineteen people, mostly civilians, have been killed in attacks in Israel and the West Bank carried out by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs since late March.
Israeli security forces responded with operations in Israel and the West Bank.
Thirty-eight Palestinians and three Israeli Arab attackers were killed in Israel and the West Bank, partly members of armed groups, but also civilians, including a journalist covering an operation in Jenin.
An Israeli policeman was also killed in an operation in the West Bank.
