At least four Palestinians have been killed and 19 wounded during clashes with Israeli forces in the enthralled West Bank, Palestinian officers said.
The violence erupted early Tuesday morning after large figures of Israeli forces entered the city of Nablus and were spotted by Palestinian security forces and fortified fighters, according to a prophet for the Palestinian Fatah movement.
“There are three dead and 19 wounded, three of them seriously, by Israeli fire in Nablus”, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a brief statement. One of those killed was unarmed, Palestinian health and security officers said.
The ministry latterly reported that another Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces, this time in Ramallah, home to the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in the central West Bank.
The Israeli service said only that their forces were operating in Nablus but gave no farther details.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is establishing “critical connections in order to stop this aggression against our people” in Nablus, his prophet Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement.
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“All of this will have dangerous and destructive consequences,” Abu Rudeineh said on Palestine TV.
Fortified competitions were continuing in and around the Old City of Nablus in the north of the enthralled West Bank, said Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah.
“We’re hearing original sources calling this a ‘scene from hell’. We’re hearing that large figures of Israeli forces have been pushed inside the megacity,” Ibrahim said. Nablus has been besieged by Israeli forces for further than two weeks formerly, she added.
“We ’ve seen Israeli forces closing down the megacity because they say that they ’re interested in tracking down a group calling itself the Lions’ Den”, Ibrahim said, adding that the group later claimed responsibility for a firing attack that killed an Israeli dogface.
Ibrahim said the reported number of casualties is anticipated to increase as the clashes are ongoing.
On Sunday, the Lions’ Den fortified group said that one of its fighters, Tamer al- Kilani, was killed when an explosive device planted on a motorcycle exploded in the Old City of Nablus.
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The group described al-Kilani as one of its “fiercest fighters” and criticized Israel for the blast that killed him as he walked history.
The Israeli service declined to note the claim that it was behind the payoff.
Israeli forces have been conducting nocturnal raids in the enthralled West Bank since March in what it says is a shot to strike fortified networks and baffle attacks.
In May, Israeli dogfaces shot and killed Al Jazeera intelligencer Shireen Abu Akleh while she was on assignment in Jenin, in the enthralled West Bank.
Abu Akleh was wearing a press vest and was standing with other intelligencers when she was shot dead in a case that has been described as a targeted payoff by Israeli forces.
