The death of the adolescent intervenes the day after that of an Israeli soldier and two Palestinians, killed during exchanges at the CheckPoint shots of Jalameh.
Le Monde via AP and AFP
The deadly clashes continue in the north of the occupied West Bank. Thursday September 15 in the morning, a Palestinian teenager was killed by a “head” by Israeli forces in the village of Kfar Dan, announced the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army said it was deployed in this village to “identify the houses of the two terrorists” who killed an Israeli soldier the day before, in order to destroy them, as its policy wants authors of anti-Israeli attacks. “We will not hesitate to act where the Palestinian authority does not maintain order,” said Israeli Prime Minister, Yaïr Lapid on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, an Israeli soldier and two Palestinians from the village of Kfar Dan had been killed during exchanges at the Jalameh checkpoint, crossing point between Israel and occupied West Bank. The attack, which had cost the soldier’s life, had been claimed by the brigades of the Martyrs of Al-Aqsa, the armed branch of Fatah, the party of the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
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Since a series of attacks against the Israelis who have killed nineteen since March, the Israeli army has multiplied its operations in the north of the occupied West Bank, especially in the regions of Nablus and Jénine, where groups Palestinian armed are active.
These operations, frequently marked by clashes with the local population or combatants, led to the arrest of more than one thousand five hundred people, according to the head of the Israeli army, Aviv Kohavi. They also led to the deaths of dozens of people on the Palestinian side, making this deadly year in the occupied territory since 2016.
Sunday, a Palestinian member of the Martyrs of Al-Aqsa Martyrs died of his injuries inflicted a few days earlier. He had been injured by bullets during clashes with the army who came to destroy the author of a fatal Israelis attack on April 7 in Tel Aviv. Last week, two members of Palestinian armed Islamist movements, Hamas and Islamic jihad were killed in raids. Several civilians were also killed during these operations, including the journalist from Al-Jazira Shireen Abu Akleh.
“Our Palestinian people in Jénine, in Nablus and in all the cities of West Bank is pursuing a massive revolution and a permanent fight against the” Israeli occupation, “in response to their crimes”, said Hamas yesterday, in power In the Gaza Strip.
Israel has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967, at the end of what the Hebrew State appoints the “Six-Day war”.