JERUSALEM (Washington Insider Magazine) – Early Thursday, Israeli soldiers attacked a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, starting a gun fight in which 2 Palestinians were killed and 15 others were injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry Of health.
According to the Israeli military, a Palestinian repeatedly stabbed a 28-year-old Israeli male on a public bus in the West Bank before getting killed by a passerby. The wounded victim was transferred to a hospital, according to the Magen David Adom rescue agency.
As gunfire roared in the background, videos surfaced online showing smoke emerging from the middle of the Jenin refugee camp. Others purported to show Palestinian militants and Israeli soldiers scurrying through the congested streets.
According to ABC NEWS, the operation came 2 days after a Palestinian from a village near Jenin killed 5 individuals in central Israel, part of a spate of strikes in recent days that have took the lives of 11 people.
Yazid al-Saadi, 23, and Sanad Abu Atiyeh, 17, were slain, according to the Palestinian Ministry Of health. It said Nidal Jaafara, 30, was killed near Bethlehem in the West Bank, presumably alluding to the stabbing attack.
After reaching Jenin to detain suspects, Israeli forces came under fire, according to the Israeli military. One soldier was injured, according to the report, and was evacuated to a treatment center.
One of the fiercest confrontations of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, took place in the Jenin refugee camp. Israeli soldiers fought Palestinian terrorists in the camp for about 3 weeks in April 2002. According to the United Nations, 23 Israeli troops as well as at least 52 Palestinians, mainly civilians, were killed.
In recent years, the Palestinian Administration, which governs sections of the disputed West Bank and works with Israel on security issues, appeared to have lost control of Jenin. Israeli military working in and outside the city and refugee camps are frequently targeted by Palestinians.
Following Thursday’s attack, the Islamic Jihad extremist organisation ordered a “general mobilisation” of its troops.
In the incident on Tuesday, a 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Yabad, near Jenin, shot and killed five people. Two police officers were killed in a gun incident by 2 Islamic State sympathizers in the city center of Hadera on Sunday night. Last week, four people were killed in a car-ramming and stabbing incident in the southern city of Beersheba, which was also carried out by an IS-inspired assailant. IS claimed responsibility for the two assaults, which were conducted by Arab Israeli residents.
The new surge of violence has resurrected the Palestinian conflict at a point when Israel is focusing on forging relationships with Arab governments to counter Iran. Bennett opposes Palestinian statehood, and there have been no real Israeli-Palestinian peace discussions in more than a decade.
In an effort to preserve peace before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts this weekend, Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian leaders have had a flurry of talks in recent weeks, and Israel has planned a number of goodwill gestures.
They aim to prevent a recurrence of last year’s conflict in Jerusalem, which sparked an 11-day Gaza conflict, but recent strikes have heightened tensions. Despite this, Israel agreed to proceed with plans to loosen limitations on Palestinians in the controlled Gaza Strip and the West Bank during a Security Council meeting late Wednesday.
In the 1967 Mideast war, Israel gained the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and Gaza, which the Palestinians aspire for a future state. In a decision that was not recognised globally, Israel annexed east Jerusalem. It is rapidly creating and developing Jewish colonies in the West Bank, which the majority of the global community considers illegal.
In 2005, Israel retreated from Gaza, and 2 years later, the Palestinian extremist group Hamas took authority. Hamas and Israel have battled four wars since then, and Egypt and Israel have sustained an embargo on the region, which is home to over 2 million Palestinians.