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JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinian militants Sunday who opened fireplace on troops within the occupied West Financial institution, the navy stated, the newest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence within the area.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah celebration, claimed the lads killed as members.
The Palestinian Well being Ministry stated the lads have been killed by Israeli fireplace close to town of Nablus and recognized them as Jihad Mohammed al-Shami, 24, Uday Othman al-Shami, 22 and Mohammed Raed Dabeek, 18.
The navy stated it confiscated three M16 rifles from the militants after the shootout and that one gunman turned himself in and was arrested.
The deaths Sunday convey to 80 the variety of Palestinians killed because the begin of the yr, as Israel has stepped up arrest raids within the West Financial institution. A spasm of Palestinian assaults towards Israelis has killed 14 folks in 2023.
The recent violence follows an Israeli navy raid final week on the West Financial institution village of Jaba, the place three Palestinian militants have been killed. Hours later, a Palestinian gunman opened fireplace on a busy Tel Aviv thoroughfare at first of the Israeli weekend, wounding three folks earlier than being shot and killed.
The present spherical of violence is without doubt one of the worst between Israelis and Palestinians within the West Financial institution in years. It started final spring after a sequence of Palestinian assaults towards Israelis that triggered near-nightly Israeli raids within the West Financial institution.
Practically 150 Palestinians have been killed within the West Financial institution and east Jerusalem in 2022, making it the deadliest yr in these areas since 2004, in line with the main Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Palestinian assaults towards Israelis throughout that very same time killed 30 folks.
The navy says a lot of the Palestinians killed have been militants. However stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others not concerned in confrontations have additionally been killed.
Israel says the raids are important to dismantle militant networks and forestall future assaults. However assaults seem like intensifying quite than slowing down.
The Palestinians view the raids as a tightening by Israel of its 55-year, open-ended occupation of lands they search for his or her future state.
Israel captured the West Financial institution, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem within the 1967 Mideast warfare. The Palestinians search these territories for his or her future unbiased state.