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Israel’s defence minister calls West Bank shooting an ‘act of war’
Israel Katz has promised to respond to the deadly gun attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim in the occupied West Bank. The attack by Palestinian gunmen on Monday killed two women and an off-duty police officer, while also wounding eight others.
Israeli authorities say three men from the Jenin area carried out the attack and they are still at large.
“The despicable, murderous terror attack that occurred here yesterday is an act of war for all intents and purposes, and it will be answered accordingly,” Katz said during a visit to the site.
“We will hit the terrorists and those who sent them, and we will act powerfully against the places from where the terrorists came,” he added.
Israel carrying out a ‘silent war’ in the occupied West Bank
Some analysts are calling what is happening in the occupied West Bank a “silent war”.
With attention on Gaza, the Israeli military has been raiding the occupied West Bank quite intensively for the last 15 months in a way that hasn’t really been seen before. They have had raids on a much larger scale, and of much larger sizes, because Israel says it wants to combat the threat of Palestinian fighters.
But Palestinians across the occupied West Bank will tell you that this is just a reality of living life under Israeli occupation.
The military raids, the checkpoints, the constant road closures. The way the military comes into these towns is that they come with bulldozers, they tear up the roads, they destroy critical infrastructure, which Palestinians see as a form of collective punishment.
Israel maintains it is trying to combat the threat of Palestinian fighters, but these fighters say that they have a legitimate right to resist the occupation.
New clashes reported between PA forces, Palestinian fighters in Jenin
As we have previously reported, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has carried out a weeks-long security operation against the Jenin Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank.
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues, citing sources in the Jenin area, now report that armed clashes have again taken place between PA security forces and armed groups in the Jenin refugee camp over recent hours.
Israeli forces arrest 6 Palestinians in raids on Qalqilya, Tubas
The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli soldiers stormed the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya and raided a number of houses before arresting the three men. According to the agency, the Israeli raid triggered clashes with Palestinian fighters in the city. The soldiers used live rounds and sound bombs against the fighters, it added.
The arrests come as Israel’s military hunts for suspects in a deadly attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim, which is also near Qalqilya. However, it is not clear if the arrests are related to that incident. Israeli forces have also stormed the city of Tubas and arrested one Palestinian, while two Palestinians have been arrested in the town of Aqaba, east of Tubas, Wafa reports.
Wafa also had additional details on the settler attack we had been covering earlier. It said the settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles on the Qalqilya-Nablus highway, near the entrances to the villages of Kafr Laqif, Jinsafut, Amatin and Funduq, causing damage to many of them.
Five arrested during Israeli military raids in Ramallah
We have been reporting that the Israeli military carried out a string of raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank over recent hours.
Now, Wafa reports that Israeli forces have stormed the Qaddoura camp in Ramallah, detaining dozens of Palestinians, interrogating them, and then arresting five men.
Israeli forces have also raided several neighbourhoods in the neighbouring city of el-Bireh. In the town of Tammun, south of the city of Tubas, Israeli forces also besieged two houses, Wafa reports. Israeli jets bombed Tammun on Tuesday, killing at least one Palestinian man.
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