At least six Palestinians were said to be wounded in an Israeli military raid in the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp near the West Bank city of Jericho late Wednesday, Palestinian health officials said.
Palestinian sources cited by Ynet said some 50 military vehicles entered the camp, blocking entries and exits, as Israeli troops began raiding homes.
A number of gunfire exchanges were heard. Palestinian media reported that at least one of the casualties sustained a critical injury.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
Earlier this month, a Palestinian teenager affiliated with the Hamas terror group was killed during an Israeli military raid in the camp.
The IDF said at the time that troops had entered the refugee camp to arrest two wanted Palestinians. The military operation came amid a rise in intelligence alerts of potential terror attacks by Palestinians in the Jericho area.
The IDF had imposed heavy restrictions on movement in and out of the West Bank city amid those concerns as several Palestinians set out from Jericho and the surrounding area to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces.
Last Monday, military prosecutors filed indictments against two Palestinian men accused of carrying out a terror shooting attack near Jericho this year, killing dual American-Israeli citizen Elan Ganeles. The two suspects, residents of the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, were detained by troops during a raid on March 1, just days after the deadly highway attack on February 27.
The Israeli military also raided the camp last week, detaining two suspects, days after agreed to a ceasefire with the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad following almost a week of violence.
Jericho and the adjacent Aqabat Jabr refugee camp are part of Area A of the West Bank — officially under complete Palestinian Authority control, though the Israeli military conducts activities there.
Recent months have seen deadly clashes in Aqabat Jabr. Among the casualties were a 20-year-old Palestinian who was shot dead after fleeing from Israeli troops on April 24, and a 15-year-old Palestinian who allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at IDF forces.
Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have been high for the past year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks.
On Monday, at least three Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli fire during an overnight raid in Balata, a large West Bank refugee camp directly east of Nablus., Palestinian health authorities said early Monday.
The IDF said it had carried out that operation to arrest terror suspects, with three taken into custody.
Nablus and nearby Jenin have been at the center of an ongoing IDF campaign to root out terror, increasing already-high tensions in the area. The offensive was launched following a spate of attacks in late 2021 and 2022.
Since the beginning of the year, Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have killed 19 people and left several more seriously hurt.
At least 111 West Bank Palestinians have been killed during that span, including the three reported slain Monday. Most of them were killed while carrying out attacks or during clashes with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians or were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.
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6 Palestinians said wounded in IDF raid near Jericho
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At least six Palestinians were said to be wounded in an Israeli military raid in the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp near the West Bank city of Jericho late Wednesday, Palestinian health officials said.
Palestinian sources cited by Ynet said some 50 military vehicles entered the camp, blocking entries and exits, as Israeli troops began raiding homes.
A number of gunfire exchanges were heard. Palestinian media reported that at least one of the casualties sustained a critical injury.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
Earlier this month, a Palestinian teenager affiliated with the Hamas terror group was killed during an Israeli military raid in the camp.
The IDF said at the time that troops had entered the refugee camp to arrest two wanted Palestinians. The military operation came amid a rise in intelligence alerts of potential terror attacks by Palestinians in the Jericho area.
The IDF had imposed heavy restrictions on movement in and out of the West Bank city amid those concerns as several Palestinians set out from Jericho and the surrounding area to carry out........
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