The “anti -terrorist” operation was carried out by the Israeli army in the Palestinian refugee camp of Aqabat Jabr, near the city of Jericho. Hamas qualified the raid carried out against members of its armed branch of “abominable massacre”.
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The Israeli army announced Monday, February 6, having killed “several armed attackers” during a raid in the Palestinian refugee camp of Aqabat Jabr, near the city of Jericho, in the West Bank, described as “abominable massacre “By the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The results are five dead, said the France-Presse (AFP) agency an Israeli security official, some time after the first declarations.
“Three [Palestinians] were affected by bullets from the Israeli occupation during the attack on Jericho today, one of them, injured in the head is in critical condition, by train ‘To be operated on, and the other two, injured in the arms, are in a stable state, “said the Palestinian Ministry of Health in a statement, about the wounded.
The Israeli army justified this operation by calling it as “anti-terrorist activity”, intended to apprehend members of Hamas suspected of being the authors of a recent anti-Israeli attack in the region.
The head of Hamas, Ismaïl Haniyeh, called the Israeli raid “abominable massacre” in a press release, indicating that the movement was mourning members of its armed branch killed in “an armed confrontation with the Zionist occupation “. “The heroes of the Aqabat Jabr camp fought until they die in martyrs to defend their land and their holy places, he added. The repeated killings committed by the enemy in the West Bank will run in disaster for them “.
escalation of violence
“It is an odious crime which is added to the daily crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people,” the governor of Jericho, Jihad Abu al-Aasal, told AFP, adding: “We call The world to have the occupation arrested and to protect our people from the occupier. “
This new Israeli military incursion in the Palestinian autonomous zone occurs against the backdrop of a new conflagration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the climbing of violence observed since the beginning of the year.
For almost a year, the Israeli army has multiplied operations in sectors of the West Bank, normally under Palestinian security control under the Oslo agreements (1993).
The highlight of tensions and violence throughout the territory was reached on January 27, the day after Israeli operations which killed ten Palestinians in the West Bank, when a synagogue in East Jerusalem was The target of a deadly attack which made at least seven victims.
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The authorities Israeli regularly accuse the security services of the Palestinian authority of failing their obligations by not stopping armed activists planning anti-Israeli attacks.
The Israeli army, moreover, announces, rarely, having killed Palestinians, except when it holds the bodies of the latter, as is the case after this raid. For its part, the Palestinian ministry generally only announces deaths when corpses are in the hands of Palestinian medical services.