Israeli forces kill six Palestinians in West Bank raids
Palestinian officials said that Israeli forces killed six people in two separate raids in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
Four people were killed in the town of Tubas and two in nearby Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah said, while the Israeli army reported its aircraft struck "armed terrorist cells" in the Jenin area.
Israel has carried out near-daily military raids across the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza triggered the ongoing war there. Palestinians from the West Bank have also carried out a number of attacks on Israelis.
The Health Ministry says over 600 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the start of the war. Most were killed during military arrest raids and violent protests.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for their future state. The 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority exercising limited control over population centers. Over 500,000 Jewish settlers, who live in scores of settlements across the territory that most of the international community views as illegal or illegitimate, have Israeli citizenship.
Source: Agence France Presse
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