Israeli forces kill Palestinian near occupied West Bank’s Jenin: Report
The Palestinian man was shot in the chest during confrontations in the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin, the Wafa news agency reports. Israeli forces had earlier raided the village, the Palestinian news agency said.
Israeli forces shoot, arrest young man in West Bank’s Qalqilya
Special forces soldiers stormed the city in the occupied West Bank before opening fire on a young Palestinian man, the Wafa news agency reports. The Israeli soldiers then prevented an ambulance from reaching the young man until military reinforcements arrived and arrested him, Wafa added.
Israeli forces have arrested at least 11,700 people in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian prisoners’ society.
Two more killed in Israel’s assault on West Bank village
The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces bombed a vehicle and besieged a house in the village of Kafr Dan, killing two more Palestinians.
Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces had shot and killed another man during confrontations in the village, which is located west of the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The soldiers have now withdrawn from Jenin, according to Wafa.
They have killed at least eight Palestinians in the Jenin governorate and wounded 19 more over 48 hours of military operations, the agency reported.
Main points on November 20th
- Israel’s relentless bombardment of northern Gaza has killed 66 Palestinians in Beit Lahiya in recent hours and 22 others in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
- The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza says 17 malnourished children arrived at the facility, which lacks the supplies to treat them. Israeli forces are firing on the building and are not allowing any people or medicine in.
- In Lebanon, at least nine people have been killed in Israeli bombing of Tyre, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said.
- In Syria, Israeli forces killed 36 people and wounded 50 others in an attack on residential buildings and an industrial zone in the historic city of Palmyra.
- US envoy Amos Hochstein is in Tel Aviv amid ongoing negotiations between Hezbollah and Israel as Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem says that a “halt to hostilities is now in Israel’s hands”.
- The US Senate is preparing for a vote that could block the transfer of billions of dollars in offensive weapons to Israel, as a US State Department spokesperson has defended the country’s lone veto of a ceasefire resolution in the UN Security Council.
US Senate votes down bill to halt tank rounds to Israel
The US Senate is currently voting on bills that would block the sale of some offensive weapons to Israel.
Some 59 of the 100 senators have opposed the resolution blocking the sales of tank rounds to Israel, while 15 supported it.
Voting on the measures on mortar rounds and bomb kits is ongoing.
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