An Israeli navy raid close to the town of Jericho within the occupied West Financial institution on Monday killed no less than 5 Palestinians throughout a gunfight that the Israeli Military mentioned started after troopers sought to arrest gunmen accused of trying a latest assault at a close-by Israeli settlement.
The deaths close to Jericho introduced the variety of Palestinians killed within the occupied West Financial institution because the begin of the yr to greater than 40, most of them throughout gun battles that broke out throughout Israeli operations to arrest members of armed Palestinian teams.
That toll constitutes the deadliest begin to a yr for Palestinians within the West Financial institution previously decade and a half, drawing comparisons with the violence of the early years of this century, when a Palestinian rebellion, often known as the second intifada, left roughly 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis lifeless.
