![]() The Israeli army said it entered Jenin to arrest a wanted Hamas militant who had carried out recent attacks against Israeli security forces.ĭiaa Muhammad Yusef Salama (24) was armed with an M-16 assault rifle as Israeli forces apprehended him and two other suspects, it added. The camp is a stronghold of Islamic Jihad, a Fatah rival, and has been a frequent flashpoint for confrontations.įive people were wounded in the fighting, including two paramedics as an ambulance was caught in the crossfire, the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported. The second man killed in the Jenin refugee camp was identified by the militant group Islamic Jihad as one of their field commanders. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of the secular Fatah party claimed he was a member. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Dr Abdullah al-Ahmed was on duty, attending to the wounded outside his hospital when he was shot. Palestinian militant groups claimed both men as members, though there were conflicting accounts about the circumstances around the death of one, a hospital doctor. It was the latest bloodshed in what has become the deadliest year in the territory since 2015. Israeli military yesterday carried out an arrest raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and killed two Palestinians in gun battles, Palestinian reports say.
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