Fresh clashes rock West Bank as Palestinian attacker killed in Israel
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Fresh clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants rocked the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday as a Palestinian was killed after stabbing an Israeli police officer, adding to a surging death toll.
Israeli troops launched a fourth day of military operations around Jenin after an assailant from the flashpoint district last week shot and killed three people in a Tel Aviv bar in the latest of a spate of attacks that have stunned the Jewish state.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who warned in response that there would “not be limits for this war” — vowed during a visit to the Tel Aviv shooting scene overnight: “We will not let our enemy stop our lives.
“We will fight where they are located, in their bases, at their source — and, please God, we will win.”
In Tuesday’s battles, which raged for a fourth day, Israeli soldiers “fired live bullets, stun grenades and tear gas,” the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
The Israeli army said its soldiers fired “live ammunition toward suspects who hurled explosive devices at them as well as toward armed suspects in the area”, and arrested 20 Palestinians.
A makeshift barricade of car tyres blocked a road to the Jenin refugee camp, where a wall poster hailed the Tel Aviv shooter, Raad Hazem, 28, who was killed after a massive all-night manhunt last Friday.
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“Here the (armed Palestinian) factions are united against the common enemy,” said Ismael, a young labourer from Jenin camp, labelling the Tel Aviv attack “heroic”.
“What happened in Tel Aviv means a lot to the camp. The more operations Israeli launches here, the more resistance it will face,” he told AFP.
The latest violence to rock Israel came in the Mediterranean port city of Ashkelon, where police said an officer was checking a Palestinian man in his 40s who then “pulled out a knife and…
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Source : france24
