More than 14 Palestinians killed as violence flares in West Bank

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  • 21-04-2024, 19:54
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    Zionist entity vehicles massed and bursts of gunfire were heard, while at least three drones were seen hovering above Nur Shams, an area housing refugees and their descendants from the 1948 war that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel.
    The Tulkarm Brigades, which groups forces from numerous Palestinian factions, said its fighters exchanged fire with Israeli forces on Saturday.
    The West Bank, a kidney shaped area about 100 km (60 miles) long and 50 km wide that has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since it was seized by Zionist entity in the 1967 Middle East war.
    The Gaza war has overshadowed continuing violence in the territory, including regular army raids on militant groups, rampages by Jewish settlers in Palestinian villages, and street attacks by Palestinians on Zionist entity.
    Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested and hundreds killed during regular operations by Zionist entity army and police since the start of the Gaza war, most members of armed groups, but also stone-throwing youths and uninvolved civilians.
    On Saturday, Palestinian health authorities said at least 14 Palestinians, two of whom were identified by Palestinian sources and officials as a gunman and a 16 year-old boy, were killed during the raid, one of the heaviest casualty totals in the West Bank in months. Another man was killed on Friday.
    The Zionist entity military said a number of militants were killed or arrested during the raid, and at least four soldiers were wounded in exchanges of fire.