A Palestinian died Thursday in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank and a second was killed north of Jerusalem after having injured three police officers, in the next day of the Israeli legislative elections.
Le Monde
A Palestinian was killed Thursday, November 3, by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Thursday and three police officers were injured in the night, in East Jerusalem, by an unidentified aggressor who was “neutralized,” reports the police. The police also announce the lifting of the siege of Nablus, theater of lively tensions in recent months, in the north of the West Bank.
These incidents occur against the backdrop of revival of the occupied West Bank and in the aftermath of the Israeli legislative elections, after which the “right block” formed by former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and his allies of the religious parties and From the extreme right has come first, according to the first results.
During the night of Wednesday to Thursday, several hundred people took part in a procession in Beit Duqqu, a town located in the northwest of Jerusalem, to pay tribute to Habas Rayan, a Palestinian killed the day before by Israeli forces During his attack on the ram car against a checkpoint in the West Bank. This march gave rise to clashes and Israeli forces have reported projectile jets. “A terrorist who launched incendiary bombs on our forces was identified with a bomb in his hands. He was shot dead,” a spokesman for the Israeli border police told the France-Presse, who operates to Jerusalem and in occupied West Bank.
The headquarters of Nablouse Levé
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Daoud Mahmoud Khalil Rayan, 42, died of a “real ball in the heart” of Israeli forces. Their general staff also announced the lifting of the seat imposed for three weeks around Naplus after the deadly assault of a soldier, claimed by a group of local fighters named Areen Al-Ussoud (the “Lanier” or the “Fosse to lions “). Israeli forces had since multiplied interventions, which caused the death of several people, including the head of this movement. The army also filled all access to the city, which has around 200,000 inhabitants.
After an evaluation of the situation in the West Bank, “it was decided that the general closure imposed on the entries and exits of Nablus would be lifted,” said the Israeli army in a press release.