Thursday morning, the Israeli forces conducted an operation in the Palestinian camp of Jenin, in the West Bank. Two young people were killed, according to the Palestinians.
Le Monde with AFP
The situation remains tense, Thursday, March 31, in Israel and the Palestinian territories in the wake of a murderer attack near Tel Aviv. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank, while a knife attack on an Israeli bus made a serious injury.
Early Thursday morning, the Israeli forces conducted an operation in Jenin Palestinian camp, in the north of the West Bank, after the attack who made five dead Tuesday, including two Ukrainian workers and an Israeli Arab policeman, in the suburb of Tel Aviv.
Two young Palestinians, aged 17 and 23, were killed “by the Israeli occupation forces that led an incursion into the sector of Jenin,” denounced the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Other officials have also reported serious injuries in these armed clashes.
The Israeli army confirmed that soldiers and border police members, a paramilitary unit, had “conducted an operation” in Jenin, in order to apprehend “suspects”. “During this operation, Palestinian armed men opened fire on the troops, who fought back to the fire,” the army said, stating that a soldier had been slightly injured and transported to the hospital.
Multiplication of arrests
After the Tel Aviv attack, the Israeli army has deployed reinforcements in the West Bank and multiplied the arrests, including members of the family of the author of the attack, Dia Hamarshah, a Palestinian of Yaabad, Village near Jenin, having spent four years in Israeli prisons.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad, the second Palestinian armed Islamist movement after Hamas and very present in the area of Jenin, asked its members to place themselves on alert. “In the light of the events in the camp (…) The Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad announces a general mobilization of the Al-Qods brigades [armed branch] in their communities”, announced the armed Islamist movement headed by Ziad Nakhalé, based in Damascus .
Later in the morning of Thursday, in a bus circulating near Elazar, Israeli colony from the southern West Bank, a Palestinian stabbed a passenger, seriously wounding him, before being shot by another armed passenger, According to the Israeli army.
Case tensions when approaching Ramadan
In Jerusalem, the member of the far-right ITAMAR Ben Gvir, known for his inflammatory statements on the Palestinians, came through Thursday morning on the esplanade of the mosques, called Mont du Temple by the Jews, a few days before the Beginning of Ramadan celebrations. “All night, Hamas threatened me, saying that I was on the line of sight, and told me not to come here. I say to Hamas spokesman: Shut up,” said On the spot Mr. Ben Gvir at the head of the religious Zionism party.
In 2000, the controversial visit of the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon on the esplanade had served as a trigger to the second intifada, Palestinian uprising.
The esplanade of the mosques, under authority of Jordan but whose points of entrances are controlled by Israel since the taking of Jerusalem-is in 1967, had been the theater last year during Ramadan, the month of Muslim fast, clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinians. The clashes, which have made hundreds of wounded, had led to a murderer war of eleven days between the Islamists of Hamas, in power in Gaza, and the Israeli army.
In the last days, of Israeli senior officials, including the president, Isaac Herzog, and the Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, went to Jordan to talk with King Abdallah II, which, of his On the side, visited the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, hoping to appease the situation when Ramadan approaches, which starts at the end of the week.