Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in West Bank
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Sunday the death of two Palestinian nationals in the West Bank following an airstrike by the Israeli army. The Israeli military has yet to comment.
Israeli F-35 fighter jets.
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Two Palestinians were killed overnight from Saturday to Sunday during an Israeli army operation in Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. They were identified as Muhamad Azizi (25) and Abdul Rahman Jamal Suleiman Sobh (28) by the ministry, which also reported six injuries, two of them in serious condition.
Mohamad Azizi was shot in the chest and Abdul Rahman Jamal Suleiman Sobh was shot in the head, the Palestinian ministry said. For its part, the Israeli army said it was carrying out an operation in the city of Nablus in the West Bank, territory occupied by the Jewish state since 1967, without immediately commenting on the victims reported by the Palestinian authorities. “Exchanges of fire took place between the armed suspects and the troops,” the army said in a statement.
Since late March, Israeli security forces have been carrying out near-daily operations in the West Bank following a series of attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs in Israel and the West Bank in which 19 people, mostly civilians, have lost their lives.
During these operations by the Israeli army, at least 52 Palestinians and three Arab Israeli attackers were killed, partly members of armed groups but also civilians, including the journalist of the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, covering an operation in Jenin.
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