A person died in Ramallah and three others in Nablus, from which a new group of local fighters operates. In addition, Amnesty called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court on possible “war crimes” committed during the climbing of violence in the Gaza Strip in August.
Le Monde with AFP
Four Palestinians were killed and nearly twenty other injured, early Tuesday, October 25, in raids led by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank.
“There are three dead and nineteen injured, including three seriously, by Israeli fire in Nablus,” said the Palestinian Ministry of Health in a brief press release about this operation which started early Tuesday , according to witnesses. The ministry later reported on another Palestinian killed by Israeli shots, this time in Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian authority of Mahmoud Abbas.
The Palestinian President has established “urgent contacts in order to put an end to this attack against our people” in Nablus, said, in a statement, his spokesperson, Nabil Abou Rudeinah.
The Israeli army did not comment on this assessment but confirmed that it had conducted a vast operation with the police and the intelligence against the “headquarters and a workshop for weapons” of the new group of Palestinian fighters named the Lions pit, in the old town of Nablus. During this operation, “several armed suspects were impaired,” said the army.
In recent weeks, a group of young Palestinian fighters – some affiliated to classic groups such as Fatah, Hamas or Islamic Jihad, and others not – began to conduct anti -Israeli operations from Naplouse , large city in the north of occupied West Bank. 2> increased violence
The new group, baptized the lions pit in tribute to Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a young fighter nicknamed the “Lion of Naplus” and shot down in early August by Israeli forces, had notably claimed a deadly attack on an Israeli soldier IL Two weeks ago in occupied West Bank.
In the process, the Israeli army has tightened the vice on Nablus, by setting up checks to identify the people who left this city and permanently sweeping its sky of observation.
During the night of Saturday to Sunday, a fighter from the Lions pit, Tamer al-Kilani, had been killed in the old town of Naplus by an “explosion” attributed by his movement and the Israeli press to an activated bomb remotely by the Israeli army, which did not comment on these statements.
Violence has increased in recent months in the north of the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Hebrew State, especially in the Nablouse and Jénine sectors, bastions of armed groups where Israeli soldiers have multiplied operations In the wake of deadly anti-Israeli attacks since March.
These raids, often enamelled with clashes with the Palestinian population, have left more than a hundred dead on the Palestinian side, the heaviest bank in the West Bank for almost seven years, according to the United Nations. Since the beginning of the month, twenty-three Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been killed, according to a balance sheet established by the France-Presse agency (AFP).
Amnesty suspect of “war crimes”
In addition, the human rights organization Amnesty International called on Tuesday in an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on possible “war crimes” committed by Israel and Palestinian fighters during the climb In the Gaza Strip this summer.
At least 49 Palestinians, including combatants but also civilians and children, died from August 5 to 7 in a confrontation between the Israeli army and the Islamic jihad group in Gaza, Enclave under Israeli blockade since 2007 and Politically and geographically separated from the West Bank. The organization has studied three incidents in particular, two attributed to Israeli forces and one to Palestinian factions.
“The three deadly attacks that we have examined must be the subject of an investigation as war crimes; all the victims of illegal attacks as well as their relatives must obtain justice and reparation,” said on Tuesday , the secretary general of Amnesty, Agnès Callamard.