Thirty people have also been injured, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Le Monde with AFP
Two Palestinians, including a high commander of an armed faction, were killed on Tuesday August 9 in the morning, in a raid led by Israeli military forces in northern occupied West Bank, said the Israeli army . According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least thirty Palestinians were injured.
Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a senior brigades of the Martyrs of Al-Aqsa, armed branch of the Fatah movement, and another fighter, were killed in the raid, wrote the Israeli army in a press release. She affirmed that her soldiers had “surrounded the house of the sought after” in Nablus and that “there were exchanges of fire”.
The operation was launched Tuesday morning against the house of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi in the old town of Naplus in the north of the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by the Israeli army since 1967.
Tracks of fire between Palestinians and the Israeli army took place during the raid, according to a correspondent from the France-Presse agency on the spot, while a dozen army vehicles blocked traffic in the city.
scuffles broke out in other parts of Nablus, where Palestinians launched stones against the soldiers. “Dozens of rioters have launched stones and explosives on the soldiers who retaliated with the means of dispersion and by fire. Several people were injured, added the army. Our forces then left the city and none victim is not to be deplored in our ranks. “
This army raid occurs two days after the end of an Israeli deadly military operation launched against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad armed movement in the Gaza Strip, during which forty-six Palestinian were killed, including Many children, according to a Palestinian assessment.