The Palestinian Health Ministry said that two Palestinians were shot and killed on Saturday during an Israeli arrest operation in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Two people were killed “by occupation (Israeli) gunshots in Jenin,” a hotspot in the northern West Bank, according to a statement from the ministry.
Eleven other people were hurt, three of them critically, according to the ministry.
According to the Israeli military, forces invaded the city to apprehend a 25-year-old Palestinian who is a member of the extremist group Islamic Jihad and is accused of firing at soldiers nearby.
“During the activities, shots were fired at IDF (Israeli army) soldiers as scores of Palestinians threw explosives and Molotov cocktails at them. In response, the soldiers opened fire on the armed suspects, according to an army statement.
During the raid, Israeli troops reportedly opened fire directly at journalists, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The incident follows the Wednesday incident in which two reporters were hurt while reporting a military operation that an AFP reporter saw take place close to the West Bank city of Nablus and in which one Palestinian was murdered.
The Israeli military’s vulnerability versus “the resistance in the West Bank,” according to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, was revealed by the Jenin raid.
In order to arrest one individual, Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, “resorts to mobilising military equipment and helicopters,” according to a statement.
According to the health ministry, two additional Palestinians, including a 14-year-old child, were shot and killed by Israeli troops on Friday. On Saturday, there was rioting in Jenin.
The second Palestinian was slain close to the city of Ramallah, while the youngster was killed in Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank.
In response to a “violent disturbance” outside of Ramallah, the Israeli military said that its soldiers shot at a suspect who hurled Molotov cocktails at forces in Qalqilya.
The fatalities on Friday were “executions,” according to the Palestinian foreign ministry.
In recent months, the army has conducted numerous, frequently fatal operations in Jenin and other areas of the West Bank, frequently focusing on Palestinian terrorists.
Numerous Palestinians, both combatants and civilians, have died.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, was shot and killed in May while documenting an Israeli operation in Jenin.
